Reid’s Fruit Trees for Fall, 1898. 
SPECIAL NOTICE. — We call your especial attention to our line of nursery stock. Many of you, no doubt, 
know liovv often the people are robbed and humbugged by agents, who call upon you, saying they represent a 
certain firm, when they do not ; they buy their stock wherever they can buy the lowest, and charge you double 
rates for stock which is nothing but culls and common varieties. We have placed our rates as low as any firm 
which has a reputation at stake, and we will protect the grower and give him just what he buys. 
PREPARATIONS FOR PLANTING. — Plow and subsoil repeatedly, so as to pulverize thoroughly to a 
depth of 12 to 18 inches. When planting on the lawn or grass plots, remove the sod for a diameter of four to five 
feet, and keep this space well worked and free from weeds. Dig the hole deeper and larger than is necessary to 
admit all the roots in their natural position, keeping the surface and subsoil separate. Cut off broken and bruised 
roots, and shorten the tops to half a dozen good buds, except for fall planting, when it is better to defer top- 
pruning until the following spring. If not prepared to plant when your stock arrives, “ heel-in, ” by digging a 
trench deep enough to admit all the roots, and setting the trees therein as they can stand, carefully packing the 
earth about the roots, taking up when required. Never leave the roots exposed, and “ puddle ” before planting. 
PLANTING. — Fill up the hole with surface soil, so that the tree will stand about as it did in the nursery 
after the earth was settled, except for Dwarf Pears, which should be planted deep enough to cover the quince 
stock upon which they are budded, two or three inches. Work the soil thoroughly among the roots, and when 
well covered tramp firmly. Set the tree firm as a post, but leave the surface filling (of poorer soil) light and 
loose. No staking will be required except for very tall trees. Never let manure come in contact with the roots. 
DISTANCES FOR. PLANTING. 
Standard Apples 
Standard Pears and strong-growing Cherries 
Duke and Morel lo Cherries 18 
Standard Plums, Apricots, Peaches, Nectarines 16 to 18 
Dwarf Pears 10 to 12 
Dwarf Apples 10 to 12 
Grapes . . . rows 10 to 16 feet apart, 7 to 16 
Currants and Gooseberries 3 to 4 
Raspberries and Blackberries 3 to 4 
Strawberries, for field -culture 1 to 
Strawberries, for garden-culture 1 to 
30 feet apart each way. 
feet in rows, 
feet apart. 
by 5 to 7 feet apart. 
1 V2 by 3 to 3% feet apart, 
a feet apart. 
NOTE.-A most excdlent way in planting an apple-orchard 30 feet apart is to plant peaches in between. By the time the 
apples require the ground the peaches will have passed their prime, and can be removed. 
JNUJUIIER OF TREES TO AIN ACRE— RULE.— Multiply the distance in feet between the rows by the dis- 
tance the plants are apart in the rows, and the product will be the number of square feet for each plant or hill ; which, divided 
into the number of feet in an acre (43,560), will give the number of trees to an acre. 
WEIGHT OF TREES AND PLANTS, PACKED. 
Fruit trees 5 to 7 feet, weight about 
“ “ 3 to 5 feet, 
Grape vines 
Currants 
Gooseberries 
Blackberries .... 
Red Raspberries 
Black Raspberry tips 
Strawberries 
100 pounds to 100 trees. 
“ 
25 to 
50 
“ “ 100 trees. 
“ 
10 to 
25 
“ “ 100 plants. 
“ 100 “ 
10 to 
25 
10 to 
25 
“ “ 100 “ 
10 to 
25 
“ “ 100 “ 
5 to 
10 
** “ 100 “ 
5 to 
6 
“ “ 100 “ 
25 
“ “ 1,000 “ 
