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ORCHARDS. 



vapors which arise during the vernal nights, and stint the 

 fruit in the earlier stages of its growth. 



Having given this general outline relative to the planting 

 of orchards, we should consider our work deficient on a sub- 

 ject of such importance, if we neglected the opportunity of 

 communicating a more complete and systematic introduction to 

 this department of horticulture, with which we have been favored 

 by Mr. Christ, an eminent and practical German writer. In 

 order to enhance the value of this work, we have procured 

 the subjoined cut, which represents two rows of a design for 

 an orchard, occupying two acres of ground (Rhenish meas- 

 ure) that is, 19 roods in length, according to the horizontal 

 rows, and 17 roods in breadth, conformably to the perpen- 

 dicular lines. 



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In an extensive orchard, the proprietor will find it more 

 advantageous to place the fruit trees at a considerable dis- 

 tance, as, by such arrangement, he will be enabled to train a 

 greater variety of useful plants beneath and between those of 

 a larger size. But in a limited space of ground, such as that 

 exhibited in the preceding cut, the primary object will be to 

 make the most economical use of the allotted ground and to 

 secure the greatest possible variety of fruit-bearing trees. 

 Next he will endeavor to arrange them so that they may stand 

 in symmetrical order, and exhibit a pleasing sight. For this 

 purpose the arrangement here proposed, in an irregular square, 

 will be found the most convenient and agreeable to the laws 

 of vegetation. Thus, the eye, wherever it turns, not only 



