CHAPTER XXXIV. 

 TREE GROWING IN CONNECTION WITH TRUCKING. 



| FAR-SIGHTED grower invariably looks for- 

 ward far enough to see that the most important 

 adjunct to trucking is to produce a crop of 

 useful trees in connection with his vegetable 

 industry. In fact, all varieties of useful trees, 

 particularly the citrus variety, thrive best on a 

 thoroughly cultivated and fertile soil, which 

 has been carefully drained and irrigated. 

 For best results the land should be plowed in widths corre- 

 sponding to the distance apart that the trees are to be planted. I. 

 find in heavier soils that thirty or thirty-five feet is none too far 

 apart to have the rows of citrus trees; this pertains particularly 

 to grape fruit. I have known of grape fruit trees which pro- 

 duced a diameter of top thirty feet across when they were ten 

 years old. It is preferable to plow lands for trees twice in the. 

 same direction, plowing the lands toward the centers each time 

 and planting the trees upon the apex, leaving the furrows to 

 connect with lateral and sublateral ditches for drainage. 



For the first two years the trucking industry can be carried 

 on among these trees indiscriminately, planting such varieties of 

 vegetables upon which it is necessary to use fertilizer of a highly 

 nitrogenous* nature, as tomatoes, Irish potatoes, peppers or egg 

 plant. It is best, however, to be more careful in regard to heavy 

 applications of vegetable fertilizer after the second year, as the 

 disease known as "Die Back" (due to overfertilization) is apt 

 to gain a foothold. I have found that fine crops of beans can be 

 grown between the tree rows, without detriment to the trees, 

 the third and fourth year by applying only such fertilizers as are 

 locally known as fruit and vine fertilizers, or in other words, 



* See last part of Chapter VI. 



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