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Peach-Growing 



Table VI. — Amounts of plant-food removed in ten tears* 



GROWTH in different PARTS OF A PEACH TREE 



The yield of the tree used in this investigation for some 

 reason was very small, only 128 pounds in all. The average 

 yield for the orchard in which it stood was 277 pounds to 

 the tree for the same period. As it began bearing the fourth 

 year, the records cover in effect seven crop seasons, though 

 one year it bore no fruit on account of frost injury. Had 

 this tree produced crops that averaged as much as the entire 

 orchard, and which was a very moderate yield, the amount 



^ In the report of this work by the New Jersey Experiment 

 Station, all acre estimates are based on trees planted 15 by 16 feet 

 apart or about 181 to the acre. As commercial orchards are now 

 rarely planted as close as this, it seems better to reduce the acre 

 estimates used here to the unit of 108 trees to the acre which results 

 from planting 20 by 20 feet. 



