744 THE AMERICAN FARMER. 



Plans for Orchards or Fruit Gardens. An excellent plan for laying out 

 orchards is to plant apple trees from thirty to forty feet apart each way; then in the rows, 

 half way between, plant a Standard pear. Crossways, half way between the apple trees, a 

 peach or dwarf-growing tree may be planted. Opposite the pear trees some small tree could 

 be set, such as the dwarf pear, plum, peach, cherry, or quince. Small fruit, such as rasp 

 berries, blackberries, currants, or gooseberries may be planted in each row of trees, and three 

 or four rows of strawberries in each space, thus utilizing the entire surface. By the time the 

 apple trees will require most of the ground the peach and dwarf trees, as well as the small 

 fruit, will be through bearing, while the pear and cherry trees the branches of which are 

 of upright growth, requiring comparatively little room will not be apt to interfere with the 

 apple trees. The following plan is recommended by Mr. Wm. Parry, of New Jersey, well 

 known in the horticultural world, who says: 



&quot; The advantages of planting fruit trees on this plan will readily be seen. By setting the 

 apple trees thirty feet apart, and filling in with smaller-growing trees, the Standard pear 

 occupying the space between the four apple trees, and, being an upright, pyramid grower, 

 they do not interfere with each other. 



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 One acre will contain, at 30 feet apart, 48 Apple Trees, 35 Standard Pears, 83 Dwarf Pear, Peach, etc. 



Twenty years ago I planted an apple orchard, setting the trees forty feet apart each way; 

 I then set a row of Richmond cherry trees each way between them, requiring three times as 

 many cherry as apple trees; then a row of Dorchester blackberries in the rows and between 

 them, being ten feet apart; then a row of strawberries between them, leaving five feet of 

 space for cultivation. The next year the strawberries produced the only crop gathered, they 

 yielding $200 per acre. The year following the strawberries yielded about half as much, and 

 after picking the fruit the vines were plowed under, and turnips planted in July, which 

 produced a good fall crop. The same year the blackberries commenced to bear a little, and 

 sent up a vigorous growth of canes, which gave a full crop of fruit the succeeding year, and 

 continued to do so for five years, yielding over $200 per acre annually. The next year they 

 did poorly, and were removed, to give more room to the trees, which then sufficiently 

 occupied the ground. 



The cherry trees commenced bearing the third year, and have borne full crops every 

 year since, the quantity increasing each year with the size of the trees. For several years 

 the fruit has been worth from $200 to $300 per acre, and sometimes more. One year we 

 contracted with the proprietors of a canning factory near by for the whole crop, at ten cents 

 per pound ; there were eighty trees to the acre, and many of them yielded seventy-five 

 pounds each. 



