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trees, and may be allowed as much as forty feet of space 

 between them, while the upright character and moderate 

 growth of the Lady, Bullock's Pippin, Red June, Benoni, 

 Early Joe, American Summer Pearmain, Summer Hose, 

 Red Astrachan, and others, of similar habit, would enable 

 us to crowd them into half as much space without sieiious 

 injury — and there are trees of intermediate size and vigor, 

 such as the Winesap, Rambo, Greening, Russet, Early 

 Harvest, Fall Wine, Autumn Strawberry, Hubbardston, 

 Jonathan, and a host of others that, at the same ratio, 

 should have thirty feet spaces between them. 



There is also a great diversity of opinion among or- 

 chardists as to the proper -allowance of space for each 

 tree, and many western planters are advocates of close 

 planting of the apple, which I have seen placed as near as 

 sixteen feet, occupying the whole space in a very few 

 years, and bearing luxuriantly. The advocates of such 

 crowding urge, that they protect one another, and that al- 

 ternate trees can easily be removed whenever they become 

 too much crowded. In other places, the old nile, of allow- 

 ing two rods (33 feet), or even forty feet, between the 

 trees, is still followed and considered the best. 



A favorite method with some planters of fruits is, tp 

 make a combination of different kjjids in the same or- 

 chard, so as to have the whole surface occupied from the 

 first. In this way, by introducing a temporary crop of 

 another variety which will make speedy returns, end will 

 soon be ready to come away and make room for the per- 

 manent plantation, the ground may be rendered produc- 

 tive of remunerative crops from the first. It is a very 

 common plan to combine in this way the apple and the 



