ORCHARDING ON THE HILLS 

 Courtesy R. L. Hutchinson 



, CHAPTER X. 



PLANTING THE TREE. 



"Have you any ground to spare? 

 Go* plant a fruit tree there; 

 The capital you thus invest 

 Will bring you handsome interest." 



This is a subject that is beginning to claim 

 the attention of the public in general. Our 

 forests are rapidly passing away, and the peo- 

 ple begin to see the dawning of a day when 

 timber will be scarce unless grown as other 

 crops upon the farms. The farmers of some 

 parts of the country realized this several years 

 ago, and made considerable plantings of timber, 

 especially catalpa and locust, to be used for 

 fence posts and railroad ties, and when passing 

 through these sections one has an opportunity 

 to study the plan and manner of planting which 

 has been practiced. And often the success or 

 failure of the plantation has been largely de- 

 cided by the manner in which the planting was 

 done. The same thing may be seen in the or- 

 chards all over the country, for the method of 



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