THE NEW EARTH 



supplying the home table, but it affords op- 

 portunity for most fascinating experiences, 

 vastly increases knowledge and love of nature, 

 and, at the same time, is of marked value as 

 an aid to health. It is quite remarkable, too, 

 when one comes to consider it, how much may 

 be accomplished in fruit-raising in close quar- 

 ters. One may see something of this in the re- 

 markable cleverness of the French orchardists 

 in the training of pear trees to grow flat upon 

 walls or trellises, thus materially economizing 

 space. In the cramped back yard of a city 

 house in San Francisco a lover of fruits has 

 over seventy different varieties of pears, 

 peaches, grapes, quinces and cherries growing 

 in rich profusion and yielding abundantly of 

 luscious fruit. 



Mr. L. C. Corbett, horticulturist of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry in Washington, in a 

 contribution to the Year Book of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture lays out a plan for an 

 orchard in a space of ground sixty by eighty 

 feet in size. This comparatively small space 

 will accommodate four hundred and seventy- 

 two fruit bearing plants, arranged as follows : 

 Thirty-two grape-vines dispersed at intervals 



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