74 Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 



will only occupy it for a few months. Then the 

 land may be refitted, and sown or planted to 

 something else. 



If careful preparation is necessary for quick 

 maturing crops, how much more careful should 

 we be in the preparation of the orchard site, 

 for it is only once we shall have the opportunity 

 to prepare this land. After the trees are in 

 place we can only cultivate the surface, so the 

 preparation for tree planting should be most 

 thorough. 



The preparation of an orchard site is a task 

 that should be a source of great pleasure to the 

 tree lover, for he should have in mind that he 

 is beginning a work, laying the foundation, if 

 you please, for a building, the beauty and use- 

 fulness of which will largely depend upon, as 

 in other structures, the thoroughness with which 

 the work is done. 



While it is important that every detail be con- 

 sidered carefully in the preparation of an 

 orchard site, this work, like a great many other 

 things the orchardist is called upon to do, can- 

 no. be done according .o any se^ rules. Every 

 orchard site may present to the planter an en- 

 tirely different problem The contour of the 

 land may be the first factor to be considered, 

 lor if it is fairly level you might proceed one 



