ILLUSTRATIONS 



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A Profitable Baldwin Apple Tree Frontispiece 



1. One Reason Why Orcharding Will Not be Overdone! 3 



2. Another Reason Why Orcharding Will Not be Overdone 5 



3. Still Another Reason Why Orcharding Will Not be Overdone 6 



4. A Good Orchard Country 11 



5. An Ideal Country for Orchard 13 



6. Northern Spy Apple 26 



7. A Baldwin Apple 28 



8. Yellow Bellflower Apple 39 



9. Niu-sery Tree with a Poor Fork 41 



10. A Nursery Tree That Is too Heavy 41 



11. Finishing the Land with a Blanker Before Beginning to Lay off the 



Orchard 46 



12. Diagram Showing Method of Laying off a Field for Planting an 



Orchard 48 



13. Diagram for Measuring Boards. Drawn to Scale 49 



14. Staking off Orchard by Means of Two Measuring Boards 50 



15. Planting Board for Locating Tree in Setting 50 



16. Heeling in Nursery Stock 51 



17. A Load of Nursery Trees Ready for the Setting Gang 52 



18. Gang of Men Setting Trees 52 



19. Ready to Set a Two Year Apple Tree 54 



20. Same Tree as Shown in Figiu-e 19, Set 54 



21. Same Tree as Shown in Figures 19 and 20 After Pruning 56 



22. Pruning a One-year-old "Whip " 56 



23. An Extreme Case of High Heading 57 



24. A Low Headed Five-year-old Peach Tree 59 



25. An Apple Tree with a Medium Head, about Thirty Inches 60 



26. A Poor Fork on a Ben Davis Apple Tree 60 



27. Gravenstein Apple Trees as Permanents with Cherries as " Fillers" . . 62 



28. Late Potatoes in a Young Peach Orchard 66 



29. Soybeans as a Companion Crop 67 



30. Pea-beans as an Orchard Crop 69 



31. Squashes as an Orchard Crop 71 



32. Potatoes in a Bearing Apple Orchard 72 



33. Strawberries in a Young Peach Orchard 74 



34. Clean Cultivation in an Old Renovated Orchard 78 



35. Mowing the Grass in a Sod Orchard 79 



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