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Use Common Sense in Buying Fruit Trees.WHEN BUYING trees, seed, or anything else for that matter, . either from an agent or by mail, you : want to use your own common sense.It is often the case that while things that are said are facts, we, in ac- i cepting them, overlook a lot of things that would come to us at once if we used a little common \ sense. Too often, the good points • only are stated. * 1The agent or catalog may say thata certain peach is the “finest late ; peach grown/’ and tell the truth, and i not say that it is the shyest bearer known and that it would be about once in 15 years, when there was an « exceptionally favorable year for that i particular peach, that you would get « any of them, or that it rotted badly, tWhen they tell you about the big chestnuts, the biggest in the wrorld, they don’t tell- you they eat about like a raw potato. When they tell ' you about the Ben Davis apple being such a beauty, and such a good keep- « er and shipper, they don’t tell you ; it is like eating that much cotton, about as much flavor and taste. 1 When they tell you of Mammoth pecans and show you a sample, they don’t tell you that the tree is the • shyest bearer of any pecan known and it will have only a few scatter- * ing nuts on it and they not half filled out. They catch you with the size. ' When they tell you of some wonderful berry that will make quarts and quarts, they don’t say they would almost kill a dog to eat them.It seems the public 1b always looking for something “big” or something “wonderful” and is ready to bite without thinking, and then talk of “frauds,” because it didn't turn out as they thought. The best plan is to stick to the tried and proven kinds. Know what you want your- ■ self and for what purpose you want it, and see if that fills the bill, and ; get the varieties that suit your section, your soil and climate. What is fine in one place may be an' utter failure in others.PAUL HOFFMAN.Waverly, Ala. !
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Birmingham Progressive Farmer And Southern Farm Gazette
Birmingham, Alabama, US
Sat, Nov 16, 1912
Page 8
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AL, USA 22 Jun 2021
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