Arrangement of a Fruit Garden 



advantage of the grower's interest also. If the promise 

 to thin can be relied on, there should be no reason 

 to militate against the practice of planting closely at 

 first, but in view of this difficulty it will be well to plant 

 more permanent trees, such as apples, pears, &c., remotely, 

 and crop the intervening spaces with small fruit and 

 vegetables, eliminating these gradually as the spread of 

 the trees and their need of the land extends. To over- 

 crowd trees that is to deprive them of the freedom of 

 growth, of light, and of sunshine is wrong and wasteful, 

 but it is quite as wasteful to allow them more land than 

 they can use, and it is a most economic practice to 

 cultivate every spare foot which does not .endanger in 

 any way the fruitfulness of the trees. The real distance 

 apart can only be measured by an approximate estimate 

 of the size they will become on the system on which they 

 are grown. Figures are but a guide, and are given simply 

 with that view. Pyramids may be planted 6 to 8 feet 

 apart; wall trees, 10 to 20 feet; bush trees, 10 to 30; 

 small fruit (gooseberries and currants), 5 to 8 feet, rasp- 

 berries, blackberries and loganberries, 2 to 3 feet ; straw- 

 berries, 2 to 2\ feet ; tomatoes, i to 2 feet. 



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