288 INTENSIVE ARRANGEMENT. 



The Clapp Brothers, of Dorchester, Mass., have 

 well illustrated the profit of intensive cultivation 

 in their orchard of thirteen acres. The general 

 plan is somewhat like the following. 



[a) represents the 

 apple trees. 



(h) peaches plant- 

 ed between them ; but 

 these become so ten- 

 der in this locality 

 that many of them have been killed. 



(c) denotes lines of currants, three feet distant 

 each way. 



This plan has an advantage in the fact that the 

 whole ground must be kept in cultivation, which is 

 very necessary to the best results ; and the annual 

 manuring which the currants receive also enriches 

 the trees, and that at the extremities of their roots, 

 where the spongioles are placed ; and it is therefore 

 more available than immediately about the trunk, 

 as generally applied, where there are no roots to 

 make use of it. Dwarf pears may be used instead 

 of peaches, where the latter are not hardy ; and they 

 will yield many fine crops before the apples require 

 the room. An excellent plan, practised by many 

 apple-orchardists, is to plant four times as many 

 trees upon the land as they design to have remain 

 there. If it is proposed that in the end they be 

 forty feet distant each way, another line would be 



