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trees than the Duchess. Added to the last named, growing as an 

 experiment, are the Wolf River, Spitzenberg, Prior Sweet, Northern 

 Spy, Regan, or Black Ben Davis, Winter Banana, Salome, Bis- 

 mark and Yellow Transparent. Each of the above varieties have 

 stood through one or more severe cold winters and bid fair to stand 

 many others. 



In starting my commercial apple orchard in 1900, I set each 

 variety one rod apart each way, in rows forty rods long. Finding 



Hibernal Apple Tree in Orchard of A. H. Reed, Set in 1900, in Bearing Now 

 Tliree Years. From Picure Taken in Aug., 1906. 



those of Standard varieties too near together, I adopted a space 

 of twenty feet between trees for my next setting and finally settled 

 as about right in planting a commercial orchard upon rows twenty- 

 four feet apart and twenty feet apart in the row. This distance 

 between rows gives you open ground between rows to plant five 

 rows of potatoes or whatever you choose to plant between, for culti- 

 vation. 



This has been an off year for apple fruiting, there being but 

 few blossoms and less apples. My Hibernal trees were the only 



