^^^ THE FRUIT GROWERS GUIDE. 



trees, or on crab stocks. Crabs are the hardiest and best stocks for orchard trees. At 

 four to six years old from the bud or graft the trees are fit for planting. They should 

 have straight, stout, clear stems, to C| feet from the ground to the commencement 

 of the head. This applies to all standard trees for orcharding. Standard apple trees, 

 range in price from Is. to 2s. 6d. each. Stout, but not gross, trees with well-formed 

 heads are the best, and can be purchased at Is. 6d. to 2s. each, 15s. to 21s. per 

 dozen, 5 to 7 10s. per hundred. The distances they should be planted apart depends 

 upon the variety and soil, and are given on page 336, Vol. I. In particularly favourable 

 soils 3 feet more distance should be allowed for the "small growers"; C feet for the 

 " medium " and " large growers." Good varieties for marketing purposes arc : 



For planting at 18 feet apart = 134 trees per acre: dessert Beauty of Bath, 

 Devonshire Quarrenden, Benoni, Cox's Orange Pippin, Baumann's Red Winter 

 Eeinette, and Braddick's Nonpareil ; dessert or culinary Duchess of Oldenburg, Dutch 

 Mignonne, and Lemon Pippin ; culinary Domino, Potts' Seedling, Stirling Castle, 

 Yorkshire Beauty, Winter Hawthornden, Betty Geeson, and Lane's Prince Albert. 



For planting at 24 feet apart = 75 trees per acre : dessert Devonshire Quarrenden, 

 Benoni, King of the Pippins, Cox's Orange Pippin, Brownlecs's Russet, and Scarlet 

 Nonparicl ; dessert or culinary Worcester Pearmain, Beauty of Hants, and Cox's 

 Pomona ; culinary Keswick Codlin, Warner's King, Grenadier, Lord Derby, Bismarck, 

 Sandringham, Lane's Prince Albert, Alfriston, Newton Wonder and Dumelow's Seedling. 



For planting 30 feet apart = 48 trees per acre, if good pasture is desired : dessert 

 King of the Pippins, Cox's Orange Pippin, and Goldon Russet ; dessert or culinary 

 Gascoigne's Seedling, Blenheim Orange, and Ilormead Pearmain ; culinary Lord 

 Grosvenor, Warner's King, Tower of Glamis, Bedfordshire Foundling, Golden Noble, 

 Tyler's Kernel, Merc de Menage, and Bramley's Seedling. 



A dozen good varieties for general orcharding are : Lord Grosvenor, Duchess of 

 Oldenburg, Worcester Pearmain, Warner's King, King of the Pippins, Gascoigne's 

 Seedling, Cox's Orange Pippin, Blenheim Orange, Beauty of Kent, Lane's Prince 

 Albert, Newton Wonder/and Bramley's Seedling. 



The average expense of forming an acre of apple-orchard in grass is including 75 

 trees at Is. 6d. each (5 12s. 6d,), holing, manuring, planting, staking, and bush pro- 

 tecting (5 18s. 6d.) = ll lls. Trees and labour only : Lowest 75 trees at ls.= 

 3 15s., planting and staking 75 trees at 7id. = 2 6s. lO^d., total 6 Is. 10|d. ; medium 

 75 trees at Is. 6d. = 5 12s. 6d., planting and staking 75 trees at !)d. = 2 16s. 3d., 



