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heads of the trees, as it frequently is, then the 

 planter's ideal will doubtless be a tree with a 

 high head. If it be on level land where clean 

 culture may be practiced without loss of soil or 

 fertility by washing, the ideal might be (to 

 some) a high headed tree. So the reader will 

 readily see that location, as well as the method 

 of cultivation expected to be practiced, may 

 govern the grower to a certain extent in the 

 matter of choosing his ideal. As we are deal- 

 ing with the problems of orcharding as they 

 present themselves to us in our work on rough 

 or rolling lands, we shall attempt to form an 

 ideal which will be of the most service under 

 the conditions of care and cultivation of the 

 trees, and harvesting the crop on such lands as 

 are rough, steep, rocky and thin. Wherever the 

 tree is to be planted, or whatever the ideal may 

 be, the planter should be able before the tree is 

 planted to see in his mind's eye the mature tree, 

 ten, fifteen or twenty years old, loaded with 

 fruit. Its branches bending, (it may be to the 

 ground) , yet no broken limbs If he cannot do 

 this he has not gotten his ideal well enough 

 fixed in his mind for him to be able to com- 

 plete the building of the tree. 



Low Headed Trees — ^We are convinced 

 that the low headed tree is the om that will 



