SEVEN] OUT IN THE ORCHARD 
spots, unremunerative to the owner, which might 
be devoted to plums, cherries, apples and pears. 
From the Bureau of Plant Industry I borrow the 
following estimate of fruit-bearing plants that can 
be grown on an area of sixty by eighty feet. You 
may have three rows, one containing six trees of 
dwarf pears; one containing six specimens of dwarf 
apples; one containing six plum trees; one contain- 
ing six cherry trees; one more with six peach trees; 
and thirty-two grape vines distributed around the 
entire garden, at intervals of ten feet. Beside these 
trees, it is possible to grow on the same area forty 
plants of red raspberry, forty of black raspberries, 
twenty of blackberries, and three hundred straw- 
berry plants. Imagine for yourselves how much 
comfort and profit may come from so restricted 
an area of fruit. 
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