SOME PRACTICAL ORCHARD 

 PLANS AND METHODS 



How TO BEGIN AND CAREY ON 

 THE WORK 



"T If THAT kind of a tree is that?" asks a 

 \ \ neighbor as he leans over the fence. 

 "Why, it is hardly fair to speak of 

 that as a tree ; that is a concentrated, double-bar- 

 reled prune experiment. 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 a nursery catalogue. 

 Xearly all my important experiments in develop- 

 ing a particular variety of cherry, plum, peach, 

 apple, almond, nectarine, quince, apricot, nut or 

 timber tree are made, at one stage or another, in 

 these tree colonies." 



And when my questioner, observing now on 

 closer inspection that practically every branch 

 shows evidence of having been grafted, inquires 

 what will be done next season, I explain that a 



large proportion of the present branches will be 



99 



