. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 22 A local packing house boxed Ihe fruit for shipment free of charge and the use of the truck and driver for the long journey was contributed by a Los An- geles firm. There was a unanimous response to the suggestion, "Your Turn Next," in every town where slops were made, all of which were referred to the Director of the Department of Military Relief of the Pacific Division Headquarters, Mr. Walter M. Case, who gave advice con- cerning the hospitals where such gifts would be acceptable. Not that there is any danger tliat fruit would ever come amiss,
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 22 A local packing house boxed Ihe fruit for shipment free of charge and the use of the truck and driver for the long journey was contributed by a Los An- geles firm. There was a unanimous response to the suggestion, "Your Turn Next," in every town where slops were made, all of which were referred to the Director of the Department of Military Relief of the Pacific Division Headquarters, Mr. Walter M. Case, who gave advice con- cerning the hospitals where such gifts would be acceptable. Not that there is any danger tliat fruit would ever come amiss, for the demand invariably ex- ceeds the supply, but in order to insure BETTER FRUIT an equal distribution of Ihc luscious food to every one impartially. It is siii'e to say tliat in the cilies where llie principal slops were made the passage of the Red Cross Orange Van (lid more to make llie housewives and r( slauranteurs think of desserts and salads in terms of fruit than the most temjiling window displays or carefully worked out "psychological advertising ; Wendell P. Chambers, an overseas man and member of the Alhambra Post, No. 139, was in charge of the truck and made the official presentation to the Red Cross Field Director upon arriving at Letterman. Some Brief Observations on Summer Pruning SUMMER pruning is a subject on which there are many ideas. The well known statement of fruit men to prune in winter for wood and in sum- mer for fruit, does not, according to Professor C. I. Lewis, always work to advantage. Sunmier pruning, accord- ing to this authority, may be for wood or it may be for fruit, the amount and time of pruning and the age and kind of trees being the determining factors in summer pruning. In discussing this subject further Professor Lewis says: "Summer pruning for wood applies especially to the first three years of the tree's life, or, in some cases, to trees somewhat older that have been over- primed in the winter, and, if allowed
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