AWAITING SPRING 

 Courtesy Leo Jellinek 



CHAPTER VIII. 



LAYING OFF THE ORCHARD. 



"Be careful not to plant too close, 

 Your profit not from numbers flows, 

 Your trees require both light and space 

 That they may grow and thrive apace; 

 Set them, w^ell, thirty feet apart — 

 In rows arranged with studious art ; 

 For years to come the orchard will 

 Attest the planter's taste and skill." 



Laying off the orchard is one of the opera- 

 tions that should be well outlined in the plant- 

 er's mind before the work is commenced. There 

 are many things that should be taken into con- 

 sideration. The contour of the land should 

 be studied, as it is necessary that the rows be 

 made so that when the time of spraying arrives 

 the planter may be able to drive over the 

 orchard with the greatest possible ease. The 

 direction from which the prevailing winds may 



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