TREES IN THE OPEN. 107 



sustained therein. In planting trees in such positions 

 a series of terraces, about ten feet wide each, could 

 be easily and cheaply made by removing the top 

 spit of soil from the high side of each successive 

 width and placing it on the low side of the pre- 

 ceding one, and so on until the necessary number 

 of terraces are formed in due order up the hillside. 

 Make the holes ten feet apart along the centre of 

 each terrace thus formed. The raised side of one 

 and all should be one or two inches above the level 

 (crosswise), this being done by putting a row of turf, 

 one foot wide, grass side up, so as to form a raised 

 edge the entire length of the individual terraces. 

 This will retain any rain that may fall on each 

 platform for the benefit of the trees. The trees in 

 each succeeding terrace should be planted angle- 

 wise to those in the preceding one. This will give 

 them more room to develop than they would have 

 if planted opposite each other. 



By way of showing that a good peach or nectarine 

 tree may be established within a few years from 

 the time of planting, I may mention that the figure 

 of Early Rivers (taken from a photograph) represents 

 a tree eight years old from the graft, the result of 

 following a judicious course of disbudding and 

 pinching of the young growths see treatment re- 

 commended under the heading of Peach Trees in 

 Pots (p. 75). 



