. Eastern fruit. Fruit-culture; Farm life; Country life. Fruit ^'tiUtofMgnuultur ft, A Monthly Journal of Eastern Rural Life and tlic Development of Eastern Opportunities NO. 4. PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL 1,1912. FIVE CENTS •> > THE SEASON OF GARDENING AND BLOSSOMS The Happy City Commuter, the Commercial Grower and the Landscape Architect All Busy Now—First Notes of a Series on How to Use Cement in the Country for Use and Ornament (Land, trees, labor and all expenses paid for the first five years) '«*pp' A NEW VIEWPOINT BEING XA-KESM When the modern business man and the inde- penden


. Eastern fruit. Fruit-culture; Farm life; Country life. Fruit ^'tiUtofMgnuultur ft, A Monthly Journal of Eastern Rural Life and tlic Development of Eastern Opportunities NO. 4. PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL 1,1912. FIVE CENTS •> > THE SEASON OF GARDENING AND BLOSSOMS The Happy City Commuter, the Commercial Grower and the Landscape Architect All Busy Now—First Notes of a Series on How to Use Cement in the Country for Use and Ornament (Land, trees, labor and all expenses paid for the first five years) '«*pp' A NEW VIEWPOINT BEING XA-KESM When the modern business man and the inde- pendent thinker scan the horizon for new fields of enterprise, they tee two facts—ONE, that the cost of land and cultivation are nearly the same as they used to be, and TWO, that food products are higher in price than ever before * » * * They notice another fact: that the waste by old-time methods is sufficient in itself to pay a profit. The same system of eliminating waste and specializing labor that has revolutionized other lines of busi- ness when applied to farming and fruit raising— by companies or by co-operation for instance is already being made to pay profits that were not deemed possible heretofore. Besides the business man there is that undying love of country life— that land hunger—among other classes who are paying lo-day's prices for food (or going without), that says "Back to the Farm" in spite of all The same intelligence that gives success in the crowded city will win a competence under the blue sky— IN THE CentPf part of a view of The York Imperial Orchanl as it app»'ar<-<l in .^<i(ftist. mil, when trrc-» wcrr a few ^ old. (Iiuire Iniii land and excellent care arc going to make this the finest orchard in Delaware. Noiic<i the leguniinouM crop (p<.^), put on to cover and cnrifh the ground THIS ) is now one year ol<l. tontains Hit a<res. on which there are over apple trees of the best


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