1 36 Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 



by a dust mulch maintained by constant culti- 

 vation. Every experienced fruit grower when 

 allowing his mind to revert to the care and cul- 

 tivation of his orchard, will have before him a 

 panorama of fast moving pictures of the days 

 and years that have passed and gone. He will 

 be able to see those trees as they looked when 

 set, then as they grew they seemed to carry him 

 with them on and on year after year till the 

 harvest. 



These pictures will vary according to the sec- 

 tion in which the orchard was grown. If it 

 were in the great irrigated section of the west, 

 the grower might fancy himself among the 

 ditches and even hear again in his imagination 

 the running of the life-giving water in the 

 flumes. If in the central west, he mav turn 

 from the scenes of his orchard and gaze upon a 

 great expanse of prairie rolling away in the 

 distance. But if his lot were cast on rough or 

 rolling lands, the picture as he recalls the land- 

 scape will be varied indeed. Here it may be a 

 wild and unbroken forest, yonder a deep ravine, 

 with its sparkling brook and its laughing water- 

 falls, or he may turn from the orchard and his 

 eyes rest as of yore on the distant smoke-covered 

 mountains. 



Wherever these pictures are painted, whether 



