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Commercial Gardening 



1. The method of planting rows of half-standard trees, 40 or more feet 

 apart, and cropping between with vegetable crops. This may be seen in 

 operation at Evesham. (See p. 28.) 



2. Half -standard trees, 15 ft. apart, with bushes between the trees and 

 one row up the middle. If the bushes are Red Currants, there may be two 

 rows up the middle. Raspberries may be planted instead of bushes, or 

 one row of cordon Apples may be planted between the rows, and bushes 

 in the rows. 



3. Standard Apples (tig. 322), 30 or 36 ft. apart, and half-standard 



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Fig 323 A Well-developed Six-year-old Dwarf or Bush Apple Tree, after pruning 



Plums between the rows and between the trees in the rows, or Nuts may 

 be planted under, as is done frequently in Kent. Cherries may take the 

 place of the Apples. 



4. Dwarf Apples and Dwarf Pears (fig. 323) may be planted 9 ft. 

 apart, with Strawberries planted three rows at 2 ft. 6 in. apart between 

 the rows, and four plants between the trees, or the trees may be 12 ft. 

 apart, with a Currant or Gooseberry bush angled between them, thus: 



Apple. Apple. Pear. 



Gooseberry Gooseberry. 



Apple. Apple. Pear. 



Of these methods it is difficult to see the advantage of No. 1. It seems 



