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and west, as in the upper section. While it may seem pre- 

 sumptuous for me to suggest an improvement on a plan so 

 well matured, and by such eminently practical orchardists, and, 

 when it is true that the apple bears quite young and pro- 

 fusely in all that Ozark Mountain region, yet it does seem 



(NOETH.) 



(SOUTH.) 



Fig. 37. Olden plan. 



to me that it might be well to mix the .varieties in the 

 row, filling in each alternate diagonal row with the earliest- 

 bearing varieties to be planted, and thus preparing for their 

 removal and the retention of those of a less precocious and 

 more durable character. This modified plan I have depicted 

 in the central section of Pig. 37. 



