174 The Principles of Fruit-growing. 



is clean cultivation. This is often the quickest and 

 cheapest way of bringing such lands into fit condi- 

 tion for the growing of the fruit, and the longer 

 the process is delayed after the plants are set, the 

 more difficult and the less efficient the labor will 

 be. This summer -fallow should be begun very early 

 in the season and continued until midsummer, at 

 which time some cover crop may be sown. 



