ORCHARD AND PLANTING PLANS 



fillers interlock their boughs, the axe of the woodman must lay 

 the fillers low. 



A "Two-storied" ^ "two-storied" garden? Yes, fruits above and vege- 

 Garden tables beneath. The plan is perfectly feasible when 



space is scanty. There are no objections whatever 

 to this two-storied garden if the upper story alone is continued when 

 the trees come into generous bearing. After the trees begin heavy 

 cropping, the land cannot do duty by both fruit and vegetables. 

 The fruit trees, it must be remembered, are the aristocrats of the 

 garden and can appear at their best only after all other cultivated 

 plants are excluded. 



There is a feeling that fruits should be planted 

 only when there is room for an orchard — an acre or 

 a half-acre at the very least in the clear. Not so, 

 for one may successfully plant a modest but very 

 satisfactory plantation on a quarter-acre, or even less. Fruit trees 

 sometimes make satisfactory lawn ornamentals, and borders of grounds 

 may well be planted with bush-fruits and the arbor or pergola be 

 covered with grape-vines. Perhaps there may be room for but one 

 tree by the pump, or the woodshed, against the barn or garage, or 

 in a comer of the garden. Plant that one tree, if only as a symbol 

 of home and good cheer. Plant it for its beauty as well as its fruit. 



An orchard plan is almost wholly dependent on 

 the particular location, hence can be made only 

 by a man on the 



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spot. But whatever the loca- 

 tion, one of three arrangements 

 of trees is likely to be chosen to 

 locate the position of the trees 

 in the plan. If more than a very 

 few trees are set, the arrange- 

 ment is almost always in the 

 formal figure of a square (or a 

 slight variant, the rectangle), a 

 quincunx, or a hexagon. 



The simplest and 

 The Square commonest plan 



for an orchard is 

 a series of squares, with a tree at 

 each corner of adjoining squares. 



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Diagram of square planting. 

 The circle shows the spread of the trees 

 and the shaded portion the area supposed 

 to be wasted. 



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