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THE FRUIT INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK STATE 



A glance at the photograph shows that both Paradise and Doucin 

 trees must have far more room as the trees grow in Xew York 

 than is commonly recommended for them by either European or 

 American writers. The distances recommended for Paradise 

 range from six to twelve feet and from eight to sixteen feet for 

 Doucin. From experience with the trees in these experiments, 

 however, we should say that in cultivated orchards, apples on 

 Paradise should be planted from fifteen to eighteen feet apart; 

 on Doucin, twenty to twenty-five feet, depending on soil and 

 variety. This means that in this state where standards are set 

 from forty to fifty feet apart, Paradise should be set one-third 

 and Doucin one-half as far as standards. On poorer soils, in 

 sod, and where heavy summer pruning can be practiced, lesser 

 distances may suffice. 



Yield of Fruit. The van Alstyne orchard was slow in coming 

 in bearing, none of the trees yielding fruit until 1907, the third 

 year from setting, when one apple was borne on a standard tree, 

 and three on Doucin. In 1908, trees on all three stocks bore, 

 but on no stock was there an average of an apple per tree; in 

 1909, 27 French Crab trees bore 28 apples; 135 Doucin, 246 

 fruits; and 100 trees on Paradise bore 175 specimens. In 1910, 

 the crop was a failure and the few fruits were not counted. The 

 first yield of fruit worth taking into account, then, was borne in 

 1911, when the trees were nine years from the bud and seven from 

 setting. The yields per tree for 1911 and the three remaining 

 years of the test are shown in Table 1. 



TABLE I 



YIELDS IN VAN ALSTYNE 



APPLE ORCHARD 



