CHAPTER IV. 



DISTANCE APART IN PLANTING. 



THIS is an important subject for the person who 

 intends to plant fruit trees. Once in place, it is 

 very difficult and expensive to remove them, besides, 

 there is always some risk in transplanting a large 

 tree. When a mistake has been made in the laying 

 out of a young orchard, the owner must quietly sub- 

 mit to the error, and the only satisfaction he can 

 have, is to prevent others from making the same 

 mistake. 



The distance apart that trees should be planted 

 in the orchard, depends somewhat on the mode of 

 pruning to be adopted, and the use to be made of 

 the ground between the rows. In case the trees are 

 trained tall, with spreading tops, the distance, both 

 between the rows and the trees in the row, must be 

 more than if the conical shape is chosen. 



Standards pruned to make pyramids, may be 

 planted as close as 12 by 1G that is, twelve feet 

 apart in the row, and sixteen between the rows. 

 "With a careful and judicious system of pruning, 



