Archive image from page 282 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer02bail2 Year: 1900 HORTICULTURE HORTICULTURE 765 the general farming. For generations insect pests were not common. There were no good marliets, and the fruit sold as low as 25 cents a bushel from the wagon box. In fact, it was
Archive image from page 282 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer02bail2 Year: 1900 HORTICULTURE HORTICULTURE 765 the general farming. For generations insect pests were not common. There were no good marliets, and the fruit sold as low as 25 cents a bushel from the wagon box. In fact, it was grown more for the home supply than with an idea of shipping it to market. Under such conditions, it did not matter if half the crop was wormy, or if many trees failed and died each year. Such facts often passed almost unnoticed. The trees bore well, to be sure: but the crop was not measured in baskets and accounted for in dollars and cents, and under such conditions only the most productive trees left their impress upon the memory. The soils had not undergone such a long sys- tem of robbery then as now. When the old orchards wore out, there was no partistilar incentive to plant more, for there was little money in them. Often the young and energetic men had gone West, there to repeat the history perhaps, and the old people did not care to set orchards. And upon this contracting area, all the borers and other pests which had been bred in the many old orchards now concentrated their energies, until they have left scarcely enough trees in some locali- ties npon which to perpetuate their kind. A new coun- try or a new industry is generally free of serious attacks of those insects which follow the crop in older commu- nities. But the foes come in unnoticed and for a time spread unmolested, when finally, perhaps almost sud- denly, their number becomes so great that they threaten destruction, and the farmer looks on in amazement. The orange is another tree which has thrived so well in
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