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Cozrants and strawberries betwoin apple tree rows 
Strawberries growing between rows of fruit trees 
How to Make Your Orchard Produce — While waiting for your trees to come into 
bearing, Fillers and Intercrops can be profitably used. The orchard trees must be set 
far enough apart so that when full grown they may have plenty of air and sunshine for 
the development of good fruit and also to carry on economically the operations of pruning, 
spraying, cultivation, and picking. However, the young trees do not need all the ground 
for a number of years. 
near good markets. The small fruits also — strawberries, cur- 
rants, gooseberries, raspberries, and asparagus — make good 
intercrops. Do not plant any crop that does not permit 
cultivation nor one that requires very late cultivation. But 
if the soil is poor and lacking in fertility, such crops as cow 
peas, soy beans, rye, vetch, and, under certain circumstances, 
clover, should be grown between the trees and plowed under 
to enrich the soil. 
Young-bearing apple trees, such as Wagener and Yel- 
low Transparent, peach, plum, and cherry trees make good 
fillers and produce a number of crops before they have 
to be removed to make room for the permanent trees. 
The only danger of this method is that the orchardist is 
tempted to let the fillers stand too long. 
Between the trees, such intercrops as early potatoes 
and beans are particularly good; corn also, if not planted 
too close to the trees. Garden truck is often quite profitable 
CO-OPERATIVE BUYING— If you will get your friends and neighbors to order with you and the 
total number of tiees amounts to 100 (or 500), each one of you will be entitled to the 100 (or 500) rate on 
each kind or variety. Send in their names. We will send a new Catalog and order blank to each one, 
and tell them it is at your suggestion. Let each one fill out his individual order — with our advice if de- 
sired; then you can send them in with your order. These orders will be put up in separate packages; 
they will then be shipped all together in one packing-case to anyone you wish for distribution, which will 
effect a saving to each of you on transportation charges, or they can be shipped to each buyer separately. 
How Nursery Trees Are Grown 
To one who is not familiar with the nursery business it may seem a 
small matter to produce a good fruit tree; but it is not like planting a 
kernel of corn and picking an ear of the same variety of corn some 
months later. If you plant a seed of the Delicious apple, it will not 
produce a Delicious apple tree. In almost every instance a tree grown 
from the seed is unlike its parent. This is true of most other fruits. 
To secure a tree that will produce fruit of a particular variety, it is 
necessary to take a section or bud from a tree of the desired variety and 
combine it with a seedling tree by some process of grafting 
or budding. There is no secret about it, but the quality of 
the tree when it is ready to transplant depends upon the 
experience, skill, and care of the individuaf nurseryman. 
J How a Delicious apple tree is propagated and grown is 
Apple Seedling" dcscribed fully on the opposite page. 
