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Usual Distances for Planting Garden Fruit Trees. 



Apples Pyramids or Bushes on Crab 6 to 12 ft. apart. 



, , , , on Paradise, close pruned 4 to 6 , , 



Espaliers, Horizontally trained 15 , , 



Cordons, same as Pears, below 



Gridirons 8 „ 



Apbicots Against "Walls 15 ,, 



Cherries Ditto, Fan Trained 15 , , 



Pyramids or Bushes 10 „ 



Currants ahd Goobebbrries 6 to 8 „ 



Fms Against "Walls 10 ,, 



Filberts and Cob Nuts . 12 to 15 ,, 



Pears Against Walls 15 ,, 



Pyramids or Bushes on Quince, 4 to 6 ft. , if on Pear 6 to 1 2 , , 



CordonB, upright or oblique, on "Walls 2 ,, 



,, Doubles, as edgings 12 ,, 



„ Single „ 6 „ 



Espaliers 15 , , 



Plums Pyramids and Bushes 6 to 10 ,, 



Against Walls 15 , , 



Pyramidal Pears on Quince, and Apples on Paradise, and Plums, if lifted and root pruned, may be 

 planted 3 to 4ft. apart, and are interesting trees for small or Villa Gardens, and so treated a great variety 

 can be grown in a limited space. 



In Planting Fruit Trees on Walls, the vacant spaces between each tree may be filled with trained 

 Currants and Gooseberries, or single Cordon Trees, to be removed as the main tree grows. Such bushes 

 produce fine early fruit, which on east or north aspects hangs late, and becomes a welcome addition to 

 desserts. 



ORCHARD TREES, Standard Apples, Cherries, Pears, or Plums in Orchards should be planted from 

 15 to 30 ft. apart, and must be well staked and protected from Rabbits and Stock. — See below. 



Number of Market Trees required per Acre. 



apart for Gooseberries and Red Currants, Blacks 8ft. 



Apples on Paradise, (permanently 12ft.) 

 Feathered Apples or Plums. 



Bush Trees, Pyramids, Half-Standards, and Nuts. 

 Standard Plums, Damsons, or Red Cherries. 



Ditto 



Standard Apples, Pears, &c 



Ditto, and Cherries ■ , , , , ,_, 



Cherries, where pastured underneath . ' 

 Large growing Cherries or Apples . . . 

 Strong Pears or Cherries , 



In Plantations where there is a bottom crop of Bushes or Nuts the Standards may be placed at the 

 greater distances, recollecting that Apples and Pears give a heavier shade than Plums. 

 Strawberries for Market (about) at lfft., 19,350 ; 2ft., 11,000 per acre. 



Fruit Trees suitable for Special Aspects. 



North Walls.— For Morrella Cherries, early Pears, Plums and Cherries for keeping, late Currants, and 



Gooseberries, as Trained Trees. 

 East Walls. — For Plnms, early Cherries and Pears, early Currants and Gooseberries. 

 South Walls. — For Apricots, Peaches and Nectarines, very early Pears, Plums, Grapes and Figs. 

 West Walls. — For Pears, Plums and Apricots, and the hardier Peaches, Nectarines and late Pears. 

 For walls not facing the cardinal points a combination of the kinds may be tried ; thus N.W. would take 



those both N. and W., and so on. 

 Wired Walls. — The wires should be 1ft. apart for Espaliers and Fan-trained Trees, and 1 Jin. from the wall. 



G. B. & CO.'S FRUIT ROOM, 50ft. by 14ft. 



Contains from Auhust onwards a selection of FRUITS IN SEASON ; Customers can there match any 

 varieties they have lost the names of, or select such as they approve, and be fully convinced that the 

 Maidstone stock is kept true to name. (Photograph, with Instructions for Building, 2/6, post free.) 



