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quince should be so placed as to admit of high or enriching cultiva- 

 tion. 



Peaches. It is usual to allow about twenty feet for peach-trees 

 that are never shortened-in, but permitted to spread out and take 

 their natural course. But if shortened-in annually as they should 

 be, or even triennially, by cutting back three-year branches, they 

 may occupy only twelve or fifteen feet. Peach-trees budded on the 

 plum, which reduces their growth a little, may be kept cut back so 

 as to require a space of only eight or nine feet. 



Cherries. Common standards, twenty feet apart; pyramids on 

 common stocks, fifteen feet ; on Mahaleb stocks, ten feet. Dukes 

 and Morellos require only three-fourths of this space. 



Plums. Standards, fifteen feet ; pyramids, eight to ten feet. 



Apricots. One-fourth more space than for plums. 



Quinces. Six to eight feet. 



Grapes. Most vigorously growing native sorts, on enriched soils, 

 may be ten to fifteen feet apart ; on a poorer soil, moderate growers 

 may be six to eight feet apart. 



Gooseberries and Currants. Four to five feet. 



Raspberries. Three or four feet. 



Blackberries. In rows eight feet apart. 



For the above distances, the following is the number of trees 

 required for an acre : 



40 feet apart, 27 trees. 



33 40 " 



25 " 69 " 



20 " 108 " 



15 193 " 



12 " 302 " 



10 435 " 



8 680 " 



6 " ....... 1,208 " 



4 ...... 2,720 



