PADDOCK AND HEDGEROW TREES. 15 



PADDOCK AND HEDGEROW TREES. 



Isolated trees are often wanted for purposes of 

 shade in paddocks, and instead of these being haw- 

 thorns, elms, sycamores, and others, why cannot they 

 be Plums and Damsons, Apples, and Pears ? Where 

 wild trees grow well, fruit-trees will thrive if care- 

 fully planted and protected from stock. They will 

 also grow in hedgerows where the land is of good 

 staple, the same as Damsons are grown in Kent, 

 and Apples in Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire. 

 Many a holder of from five to twenty acres of land 

 might grow orchard fruit enough for his family in 

 that way, and have some to spare, without occupy- 

 ing the land he has under ordinary cropping. 



When trees are isolated, or in hedgerows, they 

 must be strong in constitution, as they have to 

 resist more wind than in orchards. The Prune 

 Damson, Czar Plum, Hessle Pear, and Bramley's 

 Seedling Apple, are good. The full value of this 

 Apple for standards (on the true Crab stock) and 

 exposed positions is not generally known. A 

 farmer's orchard of one and a half acres, last year, 

 a notoriously bad Apple year, yielded fruit on 

 fifteen-year-old trees that sold for 70, the pur- 

 chaser gathering the crop, and the farmer has 

 scores of trees coming into bearing round his fields. 



