SETTING THE TREES. — DISTAKCES. 15 



I do not like the practice of setting peach and other 

 trees between the apple trees, because they are seldom 

 removed when they should be. Most people who begin 

 growing small fruits in an orchard continue the prac- 

 tice too long. It has been my experience that it is safer 

 to grow annual crops in the orchard than to grow other 

 fruits. We are obliged to remove the annual crops. 



If the orchard is to be of considerable size, I should 

 survey it and drive a stake for every tree. If I did not 

 survey it, I should measure around the sides and sight 



TREE-PLACING IMPLEMENT. 



across. I use an implement, represented in figure 1, for 

 locating the tree in the exact place of the stake. It is 

 held firmly in the ground by the three wooden legs, the 

 notch at a touching the stake. The arm, a b, is then 

 turned back in the position h c, and the hole dug, after 

 which the arm is turned down and the tree adjusted to 

 the notch. An old spade handle is used as a handle, and 

 if it is inserted so that the implement will balance in the 

 hand, when the arm is turned back, one can push the 

 legs firmly into the ground with a single thrust. This 

 implement (fig. 1) can be made out of light pine, with a 

 length from 5 to c of two and a half feet and twelve 

 inches wide across the end, c, and it need not weigh 

 above six pounds. 



