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pears, and as many more of winter varieties, the same num- 

 ber of summer and autumn apples, and from twenty-five to 

 fifty trees of winter apples. Forty or fifty peach-trees and 

 the same number of well-managed grape-vines will contribute 

 materially to the variety and excellence of the supply. One 

 hundred grape-vines in a well-cultivated vineyard will be suffi- 

 cient to furnish all the fresh grapes wanted by a large family 

 through the autumn and early winter months. 



The extent of ground required will be about ten or twelve 

 square rods for the different summer fruits, and an acre and a 

 half or two acres more for all the others except the winter 

 apples. 



PLAN OF A FRUIT GARDEN. 



The accompanying plan (Fig. 202) of an acre fruit garden 

 *hows the number and disposition of the trees of each kind, 

 it is represented as a square, but may be varied in form to an 

 oblong shape, planting about the same number of trees in 

 fewer or more rows, as the case may be. It is so arranged that 

 although the trees are of different sizes and at different dis- 

 tances, the rows run both ways, and admit readily of horse- 

 cultivation. The plums are placed in a row at one side, in 

 order that pigs and poultry may be confined exclusively among 

 them during the season of the curculio, which proves one of 

 the most efficient means for its destruction ; and in connection 

 with knocking on sheets, will afford good crops under any cir- 

 cumstances, if fully and efficiently applied. A movable or 

 hurdle-fence, separating the plums from the rest of the trees, 

 renders the remedy many times more efficient than if these 

 animals were allowed the whole range of the fruit garden. In 

 some places, where the curculio is particularly destructive, 

 cherries and early apples are also attacked; in which case, 

 as these fruits are next to the plum row, all may be included 

 in the pig-yard, if desired. 



Autumn and winter apples are not required in an enclos- 

 ure of this kind, and the early sorts are placed here only to 

 protect them from being stolen, besides the reason last named. 



Pearu may be planted with standards and dwarf together 

 in the s-jime row, the dwarfs bearing and flourishing while the 

 others a re coming forward ; or they may be placed in separate 



