seven] out in the orchard 



spots, unremunerative to the owner, which might 

 be devoted to plums, cherries, apples and pears. 

 From the Bureau of Plant Industry I borrow the 

 following estimate of fruit-bearing plants that can 

 be grown on an area of sixty by eighty feet. You 

 may have three rows, one containing six trees of 

 dwarf pears ; one containing six specimens of dwarf 

 apples; one containing six plum trees; one contain- 

 ing six cherry trees ; one more with six peach trees ; 

 and thirty-two grape vines distributed around the 

 entire garden, at intervals of ten feet. Beside these 

 trees, it is possible to grow on the same area forty 

 plants of red raspberry, forty of black raspberries, 

 twenty of blackberries, and three hundred straw- 

 berry plants. Imagine for yourselves how much 

 comfort and profit may come from so restricted 

 an area of fruit. 



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