40 FRUIT-GROWING 



is such a common failure that at least one large 

 nursery has for years made a practice of send- 

 ing quite a number of " extra" trees with each 

 large order. I have talked with hundreds of 

 purchasers who have received these extra trees 

 and with one exception I have never heard any 

 grower intimate that it had interfered with his 

 planting plans. The one exception was a man 

 who is a very careful grower and his complaint 

 was that the extra trees did not work in with 

 his prearranged plan for his new orchard. As 

 in the case of the plans for a new building, or- 

 chard plans may be either simple or elaborate, 

 but in any event some definite plan should al- 

 ways be decided on and reduced to paper in 

 such a way that it can readily be referred to in 

 the field at planting time. 



It may be a simple outline of the field to be 

 planted, drawn to scale and with the varieties 

 indicated, or it may be an elaborate system 

 which will check every tree as it is planted and 

 make sure that the right sort goes in the right 

 hole. 



Such a plan was carefully worked out by Mr. 

 H. H. Ink, of Canton, Ohio. Several years ago 

 Mr. Ink decided that he wanted to go into the 

 apple business. He had never grown apples, 

 having "made his money" in the drug business. 

 One of the secrets of his financial success in 

 the business world was that he had reduced 



