HARRISONS' NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD., U. S. A. 



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This planting plan is one of the simplest 

 and best we have seen. The permanent 

 trees are planted 24x32 feet, with a filler 

 tree in the 32-foot space. This gives 54 

 permanent trees and 54 fillers to the acre. 

 We follow this method on our own orchards. 



Bear in mind that unless fillers are cut out in time they will 

 interfere and prevent standards from making as much growth 

 as they should. But the profit from fillers, with proper care, 

 makes it well worth while to plant them. To show our firm 

 belief in fillers, we are using them in our own commercial 

 orchards and would plant no other way. 



Distances for Plant- •o*o«o*o» 

 ing. Every orchard- 

 ist seems to have his 



own ideas about the •o*o*o»o* 

 distance apart that his 

 trees should stand. 

 The best modern prac- ^ ^ 



tice shows that 24x32 •©•©♦©•o« 

 feet for apple trees 

 gives ample space for 



cultivating, spraying ao^o^o^o* 

 and picking. On the k 

 32-foot line a filler s 

 tree can be planted, 

 with the idea that the 

 fillers are to be cut out 

 before they interfere 

 with the growth of the 

 permanent trees. For 

 this purpose use any 

 of the early-maturing 

 peaches. Duchess, Wealthy, Grimes, York Imperial and Yellow 

 Transparent apples are desirable because of their upright growth 

 and early-fruiting habit. 



Another common distance is 40 by 40 feet. This has many 

 supporters among practical orchard men, but our experience in 

 our own orchards is in favor of the 24 by 32-foot plan. 



The bush fruits — currants, raspberries, etc. — can be used as 

 intercrops and permitted to remain for five or six years. Straw- 

 berries, too, are successfully grown between the fruit trees, and 

 many orchardists make good money from a planting of tomatoes. 

 The land between the trees ought to be used — and can be — for at 

 least five years. 



When you invest the $50 to $100 an acre that it takes to plant 

 an orchard and care for it five years, you want to make it pay as 

 much as possible and as quickly as possible. It is a plain business 

 proposition. Because of this, we say plant two or three of the 

 best-paying varieties and then grow crops between the rows. We 

 advise every planter of an apple orchard to put peach trees be- 

 tween the apple trees as fillers for the first eight or ten years, if 

 you want to grow peaches and the land is suited to peaches. If 

 the land is not adapted for peaches, plant apple fillers and grow 

 beans, peas, tomatoes, early potatoes or other vegetables between 

 the rows of trees for two or three years. The use of fillers and 

 intercrops will make your orchard pay from the very beginning. 

 Early bearing of fruit trees depends somewhat on treatment, but 

 to a larger extent on the varieties planted. York Imperial and 

 Yellow Transparent, especially, will bear abundantly when they 

 are from four to six years old. 



Number of Trees or Plants to an Acre. The following 

 table will show how many trees or plants are required for an 

 acre at any distance apart : 



Feet 



Square 



apart 



method 



40 



27 trees 



35 



S5 trees 



30 



56 trees 



25 



70 trees 



20 



110 trees 



18 



135 trees 



15 



195 trees 



12 



305 trees 



Triangular 



method 



31 trees 



40 trees 



55 trees 



80 trees 



125 trees 



155 trees 



225 trees 



350 trees 



Feet 



apart 



10 



Square 



method 



435 trees 



680 trees 



1,210 trees 



1,745 trees 



2,722 trees 



4,840 trees 



Triangular 



method 



505 trees 



775 trees 



1,600 trees 



2,010 trees 



3,145 trees 



5,590 trees 



2 10,890 trees 12,575 trees 

 1 43,560 trees 50,800 trees 



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