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DISTANCES FOR PLANTING TREES. 



nually as they should be, or even triennially, by cutting 

 back three-year branches, they may occupy only 12 feet. 

 Peach trees budded on the plum, which reduces their growth 

 a little, may be kept cut back so as to require a space of 

 only 8 or 9 feet. , 



CHERRIES. Common standards, 20 feet apart ; pyramids 

 on common stocks, 10 feet ; on Mahaleb stocks, 6 feet. 

 Dukes and Morellos require only three-fourths of this space. 



PLUMS. Standards, 15 feet ; pyramids 8 to 10 feet. 



APRICOTS. One-fourth more space than for plums. 



QUINCES. 6 to 8 feet. 



GRAPES. Most vigorously growing native sorts, on a 

 trellis 8 feet high, 25 feet apart ; on a 12 feet trellis, 16 feet 

 apart. Foreign grapes one-half this distance. 



GOOSEBERRIES and CURRANTS. 4 to 5 feet. 



RASPBERRIES. 3 or 4 feet. 



For the above distances > the following is the number of' 

 trees required for an acre : 



40 feet apart, 27 trees. 



302 trees. 



Arrangement to facilitate cultivatian. The above is an 

 arrangement of kinds 'of different sizes, into rows for culti- 

 vation both ways with horse-labor. The larger sorts are in 

 wide rows as explained on page 81. Fruits which are stung 

 by the curculio are planted at one end, and when the fruit 

 is forming, pigs and geese are confined to that part, by the 

 hurdle fence a a> run across for the occasion. 



