104 PLANTING ORCHARDS. 



but for large and permanent orchards they should 

 not be nearer than thirty feet. There is however, 

 a material difference in the size of varieties, hence 

 a variation may be allowed. But this variation in 

 distance should not break the rows which are to 

 be preserved for convenience in cultivation. The 

 rows may be kept entire, by varying the distance 

 in one way only, as in the annexed figure. The 

 middle portion is for trees of the largest size, as 

 the Spitzenburgh, Fall Pippin, and Rhode Island 

 Greening; those of smallest size, as Bough, Yellow 

 Harvest and Sine Qua Non, are on the left ; and 

 those of middle growth, as the Swaar, Black Gilli- 

 flower, and Tallman Sweeting are on the right. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



Full directions have been given in a preceding 

 chapter, where the superior advantages of broad, 

 deep, and loose beds of earth, made by digging 

 large holes, have been strongly urged. This care 

 is often thought unnecessary with so hardy a tree 

 as the apple. But a just comparison of the two 

 modes would exhibit its eminent advantages. A 

 hundred holes, six feet in diameter, may be dug by 



