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be spread IN THE WINTER over the surface of the soil and left 

 there. These condensed orchards are for small properties. A small 

 orchard, well cultivated and well planted will be found most pro- 

 ductive and profitable. The best form of condensed orchard will be 

 secured by planting oblique cordons, as you will see from the fore- 

 going table of distances for planting that the oblique cordons may 

 be planted only two feet apart in the rows, allowing four to six feet 

 between the rows (which would allow horse culture). We could 

 have 3,630 trees to the acre, and they would commence bearing the 

 second year and bear increasing crops every year after, where there 

 would be room only for 27 standard apple trees at 40 feet apart, as 

 ordinarily recommended in commercial orchards, and moreover the 

 standard trees would not come into profitable bearing for eight or 

 ten years. 



Peach Tree in Pot 

 Pig- 34 



Half Standard 



Alexandra Noblesse Peach 



From Photo 



Fig. 35 



