Show horticultural hints LOCATION OF FRUIT GARDEN site should be convenient to home land and well drained as trees dislike wet feet prepared by the un tied state stat e a department of fit au agriculture r culture the loca locution if 0 of f tile lund land on which truit fruit Is vi limited anted ot other I 1 ier things being aquill should be conven convenient tent td the bouse ellse it should bt be well fall sanco fruit treas ti cannot thrive in poorly soils the air drahn ngo also must bp be goof bood cold air set mt ties to tile lowest levels and ciul it if it site Is so located that lint cold air settles over it front froin some ale le tile fruit blosso lIos homs tim art likely to im be killed liv by untimely sla ing frosts or the fruit way be injured by fretze fret ze in the alien hen sites batt s located oh 0 4 at aw 4 t sta B A well drained young orchard tile sides shies of slopes or 01 ii at t pointy hah are higher than tins the surrounding urea area escape such injury where the surface of the fund Is much broken and characterized by b high hills the turin funn but buildings lIttig botu lionly occupy the lie higher points in ili such instances tile natural site for tile fruit ft lilt garden or home orchard Is war near the house where here both soil boll fill ar air drainage usually illy tire me nd equate in ii other the buildings occupy low ow alti slurs s which tire if likely to be frosty tind and it Is better to plant ilant the fanelly orchard on oil r land say of tile united states state department of agriculture ri must lost giulta can he be biown on oil a grent variety of soil hut here pos lile ble it Is better tp to avold light sanity sandy so soils its anti hohey clays the iho latter uie lire often of tun difficult to in the lio intense anten e way ay necessary nece for the best with fruit while billu tile the very eo light boils lire fire likely to be affected by the arlilla of libat at cold find drought drou glit the character 0 of f the subsoil Is perhaps 1 of greater importance lin than that of the alio surface soil in III mally mail 1119 instances fialli tries planted where afre the surface soil appeared to lie be sult suitable ablo linao failed beca because tise of hardpan or rock loik a deiv fe or perhaps even 2 or 3 feet below arlow the hie surface which stitch pro pre anted n R deep let penetration of the roots also made a very cr shallow loft find and in ili elent moisture reservoir lr A very ery coarse gravelly subsoil is little better so far as its enett effect on tree growth Is 18 concerned omer ned A deep subsoil which alch to Is friable and porous to peril permit lIt a ready penetration of the roots and a free nein of soil moisture Is desirable |