Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 93 



years of age the apple orchard was turned over 

 to the grower absolutely free. So it would seem 

 that the planting of fillers should be recom- 

 mended for general practice. But our expe- 

 rience and observation would not warrant rec- 

 ommending the practice generally. First, as land 

 is cheap, there is no excuse for crowding the 

 plantings. Secondly, we can come nearer choos- 

 ing soil that is suited to one rather than suited to 

 both apples or peaches. Third, the cultivation 

 required in order to succeed in each is so very 

 different. Then again when we come to spray- 

 ing, we find it almost impossible to make the ap- 

 plications to the one without allowing some of 

 the mixture to fall on the other. It often hap- 

 pens that it is necessary to use a mixture for 

 the apple that would be entirely too strong for 

 the foliage of the peach, and we can never af- 

 ford to do anything that injures the foliage of 

 our trees. 



We are apt to allow the fillers to remain too 

 long and thereby injure the permanent trees. 

 It is after a test of this kind that we wish to 

 emphasise how hard it is to go in and cut out 

 good healthy bearing trees, even if we do think 

 there may be danger of checking or stunting 

 the growth of the orchard proper by leaving 

 them. This they could easily do to such an 



