Choosing an Orchard (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Choosing an Orchard How to choose an orchard is one of the most perplexing problems we have in horticulture and the traveller who comes to our Northwest country seeking an investment in fruit land easily becomes bewildered. He travels from one region to another only to be told in each locality that they have the best and often the only fruit district to be found. He is told many stories concerning soils, climate, etc., and is often impressed strongly with the statement that unless he will close up on a certain deal within a few hours he is losing an investment which cannot be duplicated. The average man in buying an orchard is apt to make several very serious mistakes, the first of which is that he often buys too soon. I have known of people coming into a certain section at noon and by nightfall having bought up a tract of land. This is a very foolish procedure. There is lots of very good fruit land in the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, and of course there is lots of poor land, but these states are so large that one can get a good investment any day in the year, and the wise man will go at the matter leisurely. He will take time to look at all phases of the question and under no circumstances will he buy land he has not seen. The possible exception to this might be that some friend in whom he has explicit confidence is vouching for the piece of land in question. A soil analysis often leads a man astray. He feels that if an analysis can be procured and it shows a certain amount of plant food he is assured it is a good piece of land, and a little later he will find this may mean much or very little. Before planting an orchard there are two points we should clearly understand: First, we should take steps to find out what the piece of land we have in mind is peculiarly adapted to, or, secondly, we should hunt a location which is especially adapted to the crop we have in mind. Often we find pears planted where apples should be grown, cherries are planted on apple land, peaches planted on prune land, etc. The real test of any orchard location is the crop, and a piece of land is only worth what it will produce. 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.