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no means hesitate to plant a fruit-orchard 

 even upon a northern slope, if convenience 

 should require it ; for fine, flourishing fruit 

 trees of every species, may be found growing 

 in every possible exposure, both as regards 

 the sun and the wind. 



Orchard Position of Trees. There are 

 various modes of planting out trees in the 

 orchard. 



1. The equidistant plan of straight parallel 

 rows, the trees standing as in the corners of 

 the squares of a chess-board. This is the 

 common mode in use with our farmers, gener- 

 ally. 



2. The thick or hedge-row plan is a modi- 

 fication of the above, by which the trees are 

 placed quite closely together in the rows, the 

 rows being left more widely apart to make 

 amends for this lateral crowding. It is an 

 excellent practice to set, alternately in each 

 row, apples and pears, and a peach or dwarf- 

 pear between each of these. The peach or 

 dwarf will be worn out with age, before it 

 encroaches upon the apple and pear, and the 

 apple even will be infirm with years, before 

 the longer-lived pear shall have attained its 

 maturity of growth. 



