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In seven or eight years the dwarfs might be taken out, 

 and the pyramids remain till the twelfth year. 



Orchards of standard pears may, in the same manner, 

 be filled up with dwarf and pyramidal trees on the quince. 

 Standard pears do not require so much space as apples, 

 their branches generally are more erect. In this country 



ft ** * * ft ft ft a ft & ft 



KIG. 95. Fiu. 96. 



H"'. 95. orchard of standard and dwarf apple trees. Fig 96, orchard o 

 standard and dwarf or pyramidal pears. 



standard pears should not have naked trunks over four 

 feet high at most, and twenty-five feet apart is quite suf- 

 ficient; at this distance an acre will contain about seventy 

 trees. These, as a general thing, will not begin to bear 

 until the tenth year, unless artificial means be resorted to. 

 By putting one pyramid, or low standard, between each 

 in the same row, and a row ten feet apart between each 

 row of standards, as in fig. 96, we can plant 250 dwarfs, 

 or pyramids, that will commence bearing the third year, 

 and will be in full bearing the fifth; yielding not Jess 

 on an average than $1 to $2 per tree. 



