SETTING THE TREES,—DISTANCES.. \ 15 
I do not like the practice of setting peach and other 
trees between the apple trees, because they are seldom 
removed when they should be. Most people who begin 
growing small fruits in an orchard continue the prac- 
tice too long. It has been my experience that it is safer 
to grow annual crops in the orchard than to grow other 
fruits. We are obliged to remove the annual crops. 
If the orchard is to be of considerable size, I should 
survey it and drive a stake for every tree. If I did not 
survey it, I should measure around the sides and sight 
Fig. 1.—TREE-PLAOING IMPLEMENT, 
across. I use an implement, represented in figure 1, for 
locating the tree in the exact place of the stake. It is 
held firmly in the ground by the three wooden legs, the 
notch at a touching the stake. The arm, a 3, is then 
turned back in the position bc, and the hole dug, after 
which thé arm is turned down and the tree adjusted to 
the notch. An old spade handle is used as a handle, and 
if it is inserted: so that the implement will balance in the 
hand, when the arm is turned back, one can push the 
legs firmly into- the ground with a single thrust. This 
implement (fig. 1) can be made out of light pine, with a 
length from 6 to c of two and a half feet and twelve 
inches wide across the end, c, and it need not weigh 
above six pounds, 
