LUTHER BURBANK 



were never as good as though they had been given 

 the right start; but their new condition was an 

 improvement on the old one. 



This misguided orchardist was simply acting 

 on the mistaken idea that was everywhere current 

 until quite recently the idea that it is necessary 

 to run a tree into the sky so that other crops can 

 be raised under it, and that teams can be driven 

 close to the trees in cultivating. Nowadays the 

 orchardist adapts the implements of cultivation to 

 the tree, instead of adapting the tree to the 

 implements. 



Or, what is better, he adapts the trees to the 

 land and makes the orchard pay better and with 

 less labor, without attempting to raise any other 

 crops in the orchard. 



It has been discovered that skyscrapers in the 

 orchard do not pay. A tree should be of such 

 form that the fruit may be picked conveniently. 

 It should not be necessary to use step-ladders to 

 gather the fruit from the lower branches. 



In the case of the prune, in particular, a low^ 

 branching tree is especially to be desired, that the 

 prunes may not get bruised in falling for even as 

 tough a fruit as a prune may be injured in falling 

 from a tall tree. 



PLANNING THE PLUM ORCHARD 



The old way of planning an orchard was to 



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