112 An American Fruit-Farm 



turns; have not crowded your planting but have 

 well considered prospective spread of root and top, 

 for mature, abundant fruitage. You have given 

 yourself sufficient space not merely for cultivation 

 of the plants but for administering all the business 

 connected with them, — for ingress and regress of 

 teams and wagons and for the economical handling 

 of crops. You have considered well the problem 

 of housing man and beast, tools and fruit. You 

 have, in brief, to the best of your ability, after 

 adequate examination of authorities and a decent 

 respect for experience, obeyed the principle of 

 horticultural economy, in buying land, in planning 

 your plantation, in setting out your fruit of all 

 kinds, and particularly in restricting yourself to 

 few varieties. You have assembled your farming 

 machine. Now it remains to run it productively. 



