PLANTING THE TREES 41 



everything to a systematic basis. He told me 

 he thought that the same ideas that had gone 

 big with drugs would fit in with apples. 



Consequently he planted his orchard twice, 

 once on paper and once in the field. His plan 

 is worth more than passing notice as it not only 

 helps the grower to get his trees where he 

 wants them, but in after years gives him a com- 

 plete record of every tree he owns. To begin 

 with he had a surveyor prepare a careful map 

 of the fields that were to be planted and on 

 this map he laid out the orchard as he wanted 

 it. Then a series of ' 'planting cards" was de- 

 signed. Each card represented one row in the 

 orchard and contained a ruled line for every 

 tree to be planted. On this line was recorded 

 the variety, the class to which it belonged, 

 (permanent, semi-permanent, or filler), and a 

 space left for the name of the planter and the 

 date on which the work was done. Notations at 

 the top of the card indicated the particular 

 block in the orchard that it represented, the 

 number of the row in that block and a key to 

 the varieties used. 



When it came to actual planting, these cards 

 were fastened to the side of the wagon in which 

 the trees were hauled and as each tree was set 

 it was checked off the card. At the end of each 

 day the owner had a complete record of the 

 work that had been done. He also had a per- 



