LAYING OUT THE PLANTATION 



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Thus we have in this 48-foot area: Four standard Apple trees, one 

 standard Pear, four Plum, 12 dwarf trees of various kinds (Apricot, 

 Peach, Pear, Cherry or Apple); four Currant and four Gooseberry 

 bushes, 12 Black Raspberries and 16 plants each of Red and Purple 

 Raspberries and of Blackberries and Dewberries. There is yet ample 

 space for Strawberries which may be planted 18 inches apart in the 

 tree rows. At this distance three may be set in the six-foot inter- 

 vals between the trees 

 and bushes 24 plants to 

 each row. These Straw- 

 berries if planted in the 

 Spring at the same time 

 as the trees and bushes 

 will yield one good crop 

 the following Summer be- 

 fore the bushes begin to 

 shade them too much. 

 Between each pair of 

 Strawberry plants the first 

 Spring may be placed 

 Lettuce, Onion Sets, Early 

 Radish, Spinach or hills 

 of Beans any shallow 

 rooting vegetable that 

 quickly matures and is 

 removed before late 

 Summer. 



The six-foot strips 

 between the tree and the 

 Raspberry and Black- 

 berry rows may also be 

 planted with Strawberries 

 to be cropped two years, 

 but preferably with truck 

 crops, T, that require the 

 ground to be cultivated 

 more or less until mid-July 

 but not between August 

 first and October first, because that is the time when woody plants 

 must be allowed to slow down their growth and ripen their tissues to 

 withstand the Winter. The plants to avoid are those such as early 

 Potatoes that must be dug in August or September, because the soil 

 then gets stirred at the wrong time and the trees and shrubs may 



Fig. 13. Trouble ahead! Three Y crotches all 

 starting from one point. When bearing a heavy 

 fruit crop or loaded with ice a break is inevitable 



