104 PLAN OF THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



wide for strawberries, and eight spaces over eight feet apart and 

 the spaces between the trees and small fruits for planting with 

 vegetables. We here present a diagram of the plan: 



1 Apple and Pear. 7 Plum. 



2 Grape. 8 Blackberries. 



3 Peach. <) A]>;>!" and Pear. 



4 Currant. M Strawberries, etc. 



5 Apple and Pear. 11 Cherries. 



6 Raspberries. 12 Strawberries. 

 13 Apple and Pear. 



This may seem to many to be a much larger crop than any but 

 the very best of land can support, but the farmer and gardener, 

 to be successful, must use his land only as a place in which to 

 manufacture his crops, as the manufacturer does his factory, and 

 if the raw material is not already in the soil (his factory), he 

 must go to market and buy it. It will be found, however, that 

 on most soils the addition of the fertilizing material necessary to 

 grow the vegetables that can be planted on the land, will be suf- 

 ficient to enable the trees to make all the growth they ought ta 

 make until they begin to bear fruit. To insure a healthy and 

 fruit-producing growth of fruit trees and small fruits, wood 

 ashes, ground bone, potash and the phosphates should be ust d. 



If it is thought best not to plant the full amount at ov.o?, the 

 larger trees may be planted, and one or two plants of each o* the 

 small fruits, from which, with a little care and skiUr p-'nnts 

 enough may be propagated in a year or two to comi*iW the 

 plantation. 



