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DISTANCE TO PLANT. 



Remember the above described number. If the object is to have the 

 standard apple trees 32x32 feet each way in a (fiamond form instead of 

 30 feet in a square. In the planting, say in the row running north and 

 south opposite eaclja 30 feet or standard tree, is the tree to be cut out 

 when their room is needed. 50 trees on an acre 32x32 feet each way, 

 set in a diamond form, are left after the middle tree is cut out would be 

 inconvenient for culture, more than the ico planted as described. 



Every day in fruit culture brings new ideas. In all my writing 

 about fruit and its cultivation, this is the first paper that I give my 

 views in figures, but let each good thought be fitly written, wherewith 

 to encourage fruit culture and lessen the labor. So it cannot be said, 

 when we are numbered with the dead, that we ate the fruit of trees and 

 vines planted by our fathers and in return did not plan for our children 

 and successors. 



I wish to leave this world better than I found it, and place on re- 

 cord that I have been here, that it may be said, he is missed, but the 

 work of our hands, the bloom and fruit on the trees and vines, and ever- 

 greens in winter will tell that we have been here. So we should plant 

 fruit that will give us pleasure and treasure, to shed their blessings on 

 millions when we are no more. 



JACOB FAITH. 



SCIENTIFIC FRUIT CULTURE. 



Editor Rural World : 



I have thought a few ideas on the above subject would not be con- 

 sidered unacceptable, and I present them with the hope that some of our 

 veteran horticulturists, who are so much better qualified, will take up the 

 refrain, and more plainly teach us the way. 



To one who has made a study of this subject, it is not hard to see 

 that he who would reap the best results from fruit growing, must adopt • 

 very different means in the growth, care and sale of fruits in the future- 



IJ. R. — 25. 



