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garden by proxy, you can make up a thoroughly satisfactory 

 garden order that will just fit your place. 



Here are the distances to allow for the different kinds of 

 fruits: Strawberries, one foot by one foot or two feet, each 

 way; in rows two feet apart; in beds of three or four rows, 

 ■ the plants a foot apart each way, with two-foot alleys be- 

 tween if the hill system is to be used, or a foot apart in rows 

 three feet apart if you expect to grow them in matted rows. 

 Raspberries, three by six feet. Blackberries and dewberries, 

 five by seven feet. Currants, four to five feet apart. Goose- 

 berries, five to seven feet. Grapes, six to eight feet. 



A standard apple tree, when grown, will occupy a space 

 some thirty to forty feet in diameter. But apples grafted 

 on doucin stock may be set as close as sixteen to twenty feet, 

 and on paradise stock, which is still smaller, as close as eight 

 to ten feet. Plums, cherries, pears, quinces, and dwarf pears 

 on quince stock may be put from ten to twenty feet apart, 

 depending largely upon the varieties and the way they are 

 pruned. 



Practically all the fruits will do well in any good garden 

 soil, but they have some preferences. The cane fruits, for 

 instance, are partial to rather clayey soil, and, if there is 

 any choice, give the drier place to the strawberries, as they 

 suffer less from insufficient moisture than do the raspberries 

 and blackcaps. Currants and gooseberries must have plenty 

 of moisture to do well. If they cannot be given a really 

 moist soil they are frequently benefited by mulching before 

 the advent of dry weather. Strawberries will do well even 

 on fight, sandy soil provided they do not suffer from drought. 



Most of the tree fruits prefer a calcareous soil, but one 

 and all must have good drainage. This is important for the 

 vegetable garden, but it is doubly important for any plants 

 that stay in the ground over winter, as the fruits do. Good 

 fruit and wet feet are not to be found together on the same 

 bush, tree or vine. In planning a garden do not lose sight 

 of the fact that though all these things are small when you 

 set them out, some of them will require a great deal of room, 

 not only horizontally but vertically as well, when they are 



