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is rather close. In the bearing orchards planted more re- 

 cently distance between the trees is greater. 



Fillers. - Less than a third of the old orchards were 

 planted originally with filler trees; that is to say, trees 

 which are to be removed when they begin to crowd the perma- 

 nent trees. Forty-three growers stated that they used peach- 

 es as fillers, but did not name the varieties* eight planted 

 apple fillers,* three planted pear fillers and one planted 

 plum fillers but did not name varieties. The varieties of 

 apples employed for fillers are given in the table which 

 follows: 



Variety Number of growers reporting it. 



Ben Davis 5 



Grimes 4 



Bonum 3 



Missouri 2 



Jonathan 1 



Yellow Transparent 1 



Btayman Wine sap 1 



King David- 1 



One grower thinks it is advisable to use dwarf ap- 

 ples (that is to say, varieties grafted on either Doucin 

 or Paradise stocks ) for fillers. They do not occupy so 

 much space and they come into bearing earlier than standard 

 trees. However, the practicability of this is very doubtful. 



The varieties of peaches listed below were reported 

 as fillers in apple orchards. 



