IMPORTANT POINTS FOR PLANTERS 
NEVER PUT ANY MANURE IN THE HOLES. A little bone-dust or good rich soil is best 
in the bottom of the hole. Fertilizers should be applied to the surface and worked in. 
A covering of coarse manure, straw, litter, hay, or even stones, given the first season, will 
retain the moi.sture and prevent injury from drought. 
SMALL FRUIT PLANTS should be set in a pail containing two or three inches of water 
and taken out one at a time as planted, not allowing the roots to be exposed to the sun or 
air. If not ready to plant strawberries on arrival, do not pour water on them in the pack- 
age or in the bunches, as they will surely heat and spoil. They may be spread out thinly 
in shallow trenches, with their crowns even with the surface, heeled-in, as advised for trees, 
sprinkled with water and shaded for a few days. 
CULTIVATE your valuable young trees and shrubs, at least as well as you do your cab- 
bage or corn, till July 1st, then sow a cover crop of crimson clover, cow peas, or oats for 
winter protection. Whoever puts grass in a young orchard does one of the things most 
certain to cause failure. 
NUMBER OF TREES ON AN ACRE AT A GIVEN DISTANCE APART 
IG feet apart each way 170 
20 feet apart each way 108 
16x20 feet apart each way 136 
20x30 feet apart each way 72 
3 feet apart each way 4,840 
4 feet apart each way 2,722 
6 feet apart each way 1,210 
8 feet apart each way 680 
SUITABLE DISTANCES OF 
Apples 30 to 40 feet apart each way 
Pears, strd.. . . 20 to 25 feet apart each way 
Pears, dwarf. . 10 to 12 feet apart each way 
Cherries 18 to 20 feet apart each way 
Plums 16 to IS feet apart each way 
Peaches 16 to 18 feet apart each way 
Quinces 10 to 12 feet apart each way 
TREES, ETC., IN 
Currants 
Gooseberries. 
Raspberries. . 
Blackberries. . 
Strawberries . 
Grapes 
PLANTING 
_ to 4 feet apart each way 
,3 to 4 feet apart each way 
.3 to 4 feet apart each way 
4 to 6 feet apart each way 
14 to 3 feet apart each way 
8 tolO feet apart each way 
In finding the number of plants or trees that a piece of ground will hold, determine 
the distance you are to set them apart; pace your piece of ground to find how many rows 
you will have; also find how many it will take for each row; find the product of the two 
and you will have the number that you want. 
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View of our Oppice. Packing and Storage Buildings 
Colony Street, the mac ad a mi zed street passing our buildings was formerly known as the "Old Colony Road" 
between New Haven and Hartford, used by tbe first settlers of the state 
