6 HARRISONS’ NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD., U.S.A. 
Bear in mind that unless fillers are cut out in time they will 
intertere 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° @ oO e@ 
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feet for apple trees 
gives ample space for 
cultivating, spraying 
and picking. On the 
32-foot line a filler 
tree can be _ planted, 
with the idea that the 
fillers are to be cut out This planting plan is one of the simplest 
before ence dnieriere and best we have seen. The permanent 
with the growth of the trees are planted 24x32 feet, with a filler 
permanent trees. For tree in the 32-foot space. This gives 54 
this purpose use any permanent trees and 54 fillers to the acre. 
of the early-maturing We follow this method on our own orchards. 
peaches. Duchess, Wealthy, Grimes, York Imperial and Yellow 
Transparent apples are desirable because of their upright growth 
and early-fruiting habit. 
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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, ete.—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 
intererops 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 Triangular Feet Square Triangular 
apart method method apart method method 
40 27 trees 31 trees 10 435 trees 505 trees 
35 35 trees 40 trees 8 680 trees 770 trees 
30 50 trees 55 trees 6 1,210 trees 1,600 trees 
25 70 trees ~ 80 trees 5 1,745 trees 2,019 trees 
20 110 trees 125 trees 4 2,722 trees 3,145 trees 
18 135 trees 155 trees 3 4,840 trees 5,990 trees 
15 195 trees 225 trees 2 10,890trees 12.575 trees 
12 305 trees 350 trees 1 438,560trees 50,300 trees 
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