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CHAPTER XVH. 



Setting out Trees, preparing Holes, &c. Tables of Arrangement of -Dis- 

 tances, Area, &c. After-culture. Combination of .Fruits. 



SETTING OUT. 



FOR all kinds of trees that are perfectly hardy, early fall 

 planting is to be preferred. If the earth is sufficiently moist 

 to allow of their being well taken up, they should be removed 

 as soon as the circulation is checked, or say when the first 

 frost causes a fall of the leaves. Trees that are liable to in- 

 jury from the winter, as peach, and, in some places, cherry, 

 should, in such localities, be set out only in the spring. 



In choosing trees for setting out, those of moderate or even 

 small size are generally to be preferred. Large trees suffer 

 more by removal, and require more prompt and -abundant sup- 

 plies to start them again vigorously. They are also more dif- 

 ficult and expensive to transport ; yet, if not removed far, and 

 the directions for planting, given page 245, are observed, they 

 may be very successfully transplanted, and, if well cared for by 

 being staked and mulched, and, if need be, manured after set- 

 ting out, will come quickly into bearing. 



In general, however, fruit-trees should be set out where they 

 are expected to remain in the second or third year from the 

 graft or bud, except peach-trees, which, being commonly bud- 

 ded in the fall of their first year's growth from the seed, may 

 be advantageously set out in the spring of their second year, 

 before the bud sprouts, and, being properly headed down, the 

 bud will make a strong growth before fall, and be benefited by 

 remaining undisturbed from the start. If preferred, however, 

 the common mode may be followed, which is to allow the bud 

 to make a year's growth before the setting out. 



The resetting of trees in their previous relative positions as 

 to their north and south sides was formerly deemed of impor- 

 tance, but is of no practical consequence. 



In general, the depth at which they are set should be about 



