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6. Do not bother about markets until you get a crop. 



7. Get land near a railway station or big town if 

 you can. 



8. Do not acquire land merely because it is cheap, nor 

 purchase without expert advice. 



9. Do not prune the trees the first year after planting. 



10. Be sure to wire the hedges and keep out rabbits. 



11. Provide shelter from prevailing winds. 



12. Do not buy trees at auctions, but, instead, visit the 

 nurseries in August or September, if you contemplate 

 planting. 



13. Keep fowls and pigs. 



Too many Varieties.The market salesmen make much 

 better prices when the supply of any one variety is con- 

 tinuous. Small lots, unless they are of exceptional quality, 

 make low prices. Therefore, plant boldly from one to three 

 hundred trees of one variety of Apple or Pear, and also 

 of Currant or Gooseberry. At the same time a special 

 plot of trial varieties may be planted to find out the best 

 sorts for the district, in view of further extensions. 



Not Blocks of one Kind. Experience has shown that 

 where a number of trees of one variety of fruit is planted, 

 the flowers do not set so well as when pollen of several 

 varieties is available for their pollination. Not more than 

 three rows of the same variety should be planted together ; 

 the next three must be of another variety, when the first 

 three can be again repeated. It has been found that in 

 large blocks only the outside trees have been fruitful, being 

 fertilised by bees or wind-carried pollen, whilst the trees in 

 the centres of these blocks have been barren. Bees should 



