CILAPTER IV. 
DISTANCE APART IN PLANTING. 
Tus is an important subject for the person who 
intends to plant .fruit trees. Once in place, it is 
very difficult and expensive to remove them, besides, 
there is always some risk in transplanting a large 
tree. When a mistake has been made in the laying 
out of a young orchard, the owner must quietly sub- 
mit to the error, and the only satisfaction he can 
have, is to prevent others from making the same 
nistake. 
The distance apart that trees should be planted 
in the orchard, depends somewhat on the mode of 
pruning to be adopted, and the use to be made of 
the ground between the rows. In case the trees are 
trained tall, with spreading tops, the distance, both’ 
between the rows and the trees in the row, must be 
more than if the conical shape is chosen. 
Standards pruned to make pyramids, may be 
planted as close as 12 by 16—that is, twelve feet 
apart in the row, and sixteen between the rows. 
With a careful and judicious system of pruning, 
