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Show PLAN FOR FRUIT IN HOME GARDEN Trees and Bearing Bushes Should Be Raised in Addition to the Vegetables. GROW CROPS BETWEEN TREES Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Blackber-ries, Gooseberries, Currants and Others May Occupy Same Space and Do Well. The more general planting of both standard and small fruits In addition to the home vegetable garden would contribute materially to the health and pleasure of the average family and furnish a supply of very desirable fruit and fruit products at relatively small cost. In many localities It Is extremely difficult to secure a continuous contin-uous supply of fruits in pleasing variety va-riety by purchasing on the market, and one of the most important features fea-tures of the plan for the home fruit plantation Is the selection of kinds of fruits and varieties of those kinds which will do well In the given locality local-ity and which will serve best the purpose pur-pose for which they are desired. The home fruit plot will necessarily be planned from the standpoint of the available space, the soli and climatic limitations, and the needs of the family fam-ily throughout the year. In many cases it may be feasible to grow all the fruit needed, but only that which can be most readily produced. Among the fruits that may be grown throughout through-out the greater part of the country are apples, pears, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries and dewberries. dew-berries. Raspberries, currants, cher rles, quinces, apricots, figs and cltrm fruits are more or less restricted to special localities. In colder sections the winters are too severe for peaches and all the fruits requiring a warm climate, while In the warmer sections, apples, currants, gooseberries, raspberries rasp-berries and certain varieties of several of the other fruits fail because they cannot withstand the long hot summers sum-mers and winters. ' The plan of the home fruit garden, will, therefore, depend largely upon the kind of fruits adapted to the locality. lo-cality. On the whole, however, the i t it -I IIS ! p v v 2V .C. Strawberries, First Fruit of Season. plantings should be so arranged that the larger growing trees such as apple, peach and pear will interfere the least with the cultivation of the smaller fruits or the vegetable garden. In some of the most successful home fruit gardens the larger trees are headed head-ed rather high, that is, 5 or 6 feet to the lower branches, and a row of small fruits are grown directly In the row of fruit trees. Between the rows of fruit trees, raspberries, blackberries, I dewberries and strawberries are planted plant-ed in rows which are about 8 or 9 feet apart. The vegetables are then grown in the space between these rows of berries, ber-ries, l'each trees are, as a rule, planted plant-ed as fillers between apple and pear trees. Where the area Is extremely limited the seml-Avarf varieties of ap-' ap-' pies are sometimes recommended. Care should be taken, however, to provide plenty of distance between the targe-growing trees, say 40 to 48 feet for apples and 20 to 30 feet for peaches, peach-es, pears and cherries. Apples, pears, cherries and plums may be plunted as combination fruit and shade trees, and by heading them 5 to 7 feet above the ground, a lawn may be maintained underneath them. Plum trees are particularly adapted to planting in a poultry yard, but must be headed reasonably high and the trunks protected by wire netting until the trees are four or five years ld |