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nothing else, while the Malinda is probably the best winter apple we 

 have at the present time. Of crabs the Orange and Virginia are 

 among the best, with Strawberry and Beecher Sweet for children. 



Where can you buy your trees? There must be twenty if not 

 more nurseries in Minnesota and northern Iowa, so there can be no 

 trouble about that, but don't buy your trees too far south, or else 

 they will not do so well here. A tree propagated and grown in 

 southern Minnesota is worth twice as much to plant here as one 

 propagated and grown one hundred miles farther south. Wisconsin 

 and Illinois trees have been a failure with me. 



In laying out the grounds will recommend to plant rows north 

 and south, the trees in the rows from twelve tQ twenty feet apart; 

 if twelve feet apart in row, the rows thirty feet apart ; twenty feet 

 in rows, the rows twenty feet apart, and plant so that when look- 

 ing across the rows trees will be twenty feet apart. The holes to be 

 dug of good size and depth. The tree to set from four to eight 



Evergreen shelter west of Mr. Jensen's orchard and buildings, as standing at present. 



inches deeper than in the nursery, and the ground firm around the 

 root, so there is no air space left ; two inches on top to be left loose 

 and raked fine and level. 



As to size and age of trees I will say, if a young man, two years 

 old ; if middle age, three years old ; if sixty years old, four year old 

 trees. 



Now you have your orchard planted, keep it well cultivated and 

 mulch around trees in winter time, and you will be sure of some ap- 

 ples. 



