CROPPING BETWEEN THE ROWS. 29 
has been far greater than the supply. This berry 
may also be made into a jelly, whichis always in 
demand. 
I mention these facts, as there are many persons 
planting small lots of pear trees, in locations where 
land is high, and they want something growing 
between the trees that will pay expenses. 
At the end of five or six years from the time of 
planting the trees, cropping between the rows or in 
the orchard should be discontinued. At the expira- 
tion of that time, a cultivator or horse hoe will be 
quite sufficient to disturb the surface two or three 
inches deep. This operation should be repeated 
often enough to keep the soil loose and weeds from 
appearing. Pains should be taken to carry out this 
latter fully, as the weeds are both unsightly and 
unprofitable in an orchard of any kind of fruit. 
If the trees receive the proper care and treat- 
ment, the crop of fruit will be large enough, by the 
sixth and seventh years, to begin paying some of the 
original outlay for trees, and the expenses incurred 
in preparing the soil. 
