Seventeenth Annual Catalogue And Price List Of The Home Nursery Located At La Fayette Stark County Illinois 1904 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Home Nursery: 41st Annual Catalogue and Price List, Spring 1928 There is a sentiment about the Farm Orchard that grips one more than any other feature of the homestead. There is nothing that brings such pleasant memories as the old orchard with its golden pippins and rosy-checked maiden-blush, or m the spring time when the trees are ladened with blossoms and fragrance. What a tragedy to a family of boys and girls raised on a farm without an orchard. There is not a dweller on a farm that need be without this health -giving fruit the year round. Some people try to argue that they can buy their supply of apples cheaper than they can grow them. It may be possible, but they never do it, but go without. The orchard pays as a protection to the place as well as for the ornament and landscape effect it gives. It is even worth the cost. For the blossoms and shade it affords. But when it comes to having honest-to-goodness apples right from the trees, there is nothing like it. Still many people omit this most important feature of their homestead. Don' t kid yourself that apples do not grow here and that planting an orchard would be a waste of time and money. Illinois is one of the leading apple-growing states in the Union. And while a good many kinds are improved in appearance as grown in the irrigated valleys of the West, there is none that have the flavor and keeping qualities that Will compare with apples grown in this latitude, in the prairie state. The proper selection of kinds is a very important factor in providing fruit the season through. But few of the summer kinds Will be needed. As compared with the late fall and Winter varieties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.