MAKING THE ORCHARD. 47 



is, like many other people, so vain as to think he 

 must live and support his family as other folks do; 

 and should he stock up with such a tree it would 

 be called "brush" by his customers, and would, 

 very likely, be left on his hands for the "brush 

 pile. n Warder says, ".By all means give the peo- 

 ple what they want whether in* form or variety, 

 whether best or not. " This may be a good- rule 

 where customers are persistent, but try to educate 

 customers to buy a low headed tree and a young 

 one. 



The form that pleases the majority is one that is 

 a model of a bearing tree. It must have a clean 

 trunk of 3 to 4 feet and then merge into a "head." 

 Such trees, unless planted leaning very heavily to 

 the south, and even then protected from the sun in 

 some way will be apt to lean heavily to the north 

 and east in a few years and finally lose the bark 

 on the south side from sun scald. 



SOIL AND LOCATION. 



There are some soils in which it might be almost 

 impossible to make a good apple orchard. If the 

 top or drift soil is underlaid at a depth of i to 3 

 feet with a hard pan, such as will not let water 

 through it either downwards or upwards, we should 

 hesitate before trying to make an orchard there. 

 In such locations the cottonwoods and other trees 

 are short lived. 



If our land admitted of the choice, and we were 

 making a small home orchard we would select a 



