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PERMANENT PLANTATIONS. 



on high-priced lands. It is only surprising that it should 

 have been so long overlooked by shrewd and enterprising 

 orchardists. An acre of land, for example, planted with 

 standard apple-trees, at thirty feet apart, contains forty- 

 five to fifty ; and if we fill up the spaces with dwarfs 

 on Paradise, at six feet apart, leaving ten feet clear around 

 each standard, we get in about five hundred dwarf trees. 

 These will bear the third year, and during the next five 

 years the average value of their products will be at 

 least twenty to fifty cents each. We would plant them 

 in such a way that the plow and cultivator could be 



Fig. 98. Fig. 99. 



Fig. 98, orchard of standard and dwarf apple trees. Fig. 99, orchard of standard 

 and dwarf or pyramidal pears. 



used among them, two dwarfs between each standard, and 

 two full rows between each row of standards, as in fig. 98. 



In ten or twelve years the dwarfs might be taken out, 

 and the entire ground given to the standards. 



Orchards of standard pears may, in the same manner, 

 be filled up with dwarf and pyramidal trees on the quince. 



