20 PROFITABLE FKUIT-GROWING. 



2, page 18, and an example of pruning, and the 

 bearing resulting therefrom, shown ; details will be 

 given in subsequent pages. 



With the object of aiding persons who desire to 

 have a genuine fruit-garden of the nature sug- 

 gested, a plan (fig. 3, page 19), is prepared, which 

 shows the method of arrangement at a glance. It 

 is drawn to the same scale as the preceding plan 

 (page 7), in which small fruits have prominence ; 

 but in this eighth of an acre they are not shown. 

 It is a section out of a field designed as capable of 

 extension to any desired extent in any convenient 

 direction. 



The large Orchard Standards are 30 feet, the 

 Plums 15 feet, and the Dwarf or bush Apples 7j 

 feet apart : Strawberries or other low growing crops 

 can be grown between the rows for a time. If it 

 is desired, three Gooseberry or Currant bushes can 

 be grown in the spaces in line with the trees, instead 

 of one dwarf Apple, as shewn in the plan. Such 

 a garden well managed will yield fruit quickly, and 

 continue profitable for half a century. Varieties 

 to plant will be found in the chapters devoted to 

 the different kinds of fruit. 



Small Fruits. As shewing the great useful- 

 ness of small fruit a miner's experience is adduced 

 one of Lord Ravens worth's allotment-holders 

 at Wickham, as recorded in the " Financial 



