Excerpt from Fruit Culture Thus, it is seen that all this experience with individual fruit producing plants gives the grower a more intimate acquaint ance with and an understanding Of the activity Of fruit-bearing plants than a farmer Obtains Of the general field crops that he grows. Another important factor that has contributed to rendering fruit growing a specialized business is the development of Special fruit-growing centers. Formerly the fruit consumed in a given region was grown locally, largely because transpor tation facilities were such that it was impossible to ship fruit over long distances. If a community were to be supplied with fruit, it was necessary that it be grown in the immediate Vicinity Whether the soil or climate were especially favorable to that fruit or not. Modern methods of transportation and refrigeration, however, enable growers to ship fruit over long distances and to hold it on the market for periods of several weeks, and on account Of these changed conditions, it is possible for the fruit grower of the present time to select locations where the soil, climate, and other conditions are especially favorable to the growing Of a given kind of fruit. Each decade the consuming public is demanding a finer product; competition is becoming very keen in an attempt to produce the best; and insects and diseases have Spread from former local areas to large general areas throughout most fruit-growing sections. This means that the fruit grower must be awake to methods of preventing injur'y to the fruit crop by insects and fungous diseases. In fact, to be abreast of the times today, the fruit grower must put forth intelligent effort in every direction. 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.