PRACTICAL ORCHARD PLANS 
AND METHODS 
How To BEGIN AND CARRY ON THE WoRK 
HAT kind of tree is that, Mr. Burbank?” 
Seldom does an amateur visit my 
experiment farms without asking this 
question. And very commonly I am led to reply: 
“Why, it is hardly fair to speak of that as a 
tree; that is a concentrated prune orchard. If I 
were to name all the varieties of fruit that are 
growing on the branches from that single trunk, it 
would sound like reciting the names from an or- 
chardist’s catalog. Nearly all my important 
experiments in developing a particular variety of 
plum are made, at one stage or another, in these 
tree-colonies.” 
And when my visitor, observing now on closer 
inspection that practically every branch shows evi- 
dence of having been grafted, inquires what will 
be done next season, I explain that a fair propor- 
tion of the present branches will be cut away and 
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