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A. B. Hood £t Co.’s Descriptive Catalogue 
PLANT YOUNG TREES 
W’e cannot too strongly recommend to our customers the procuring of young 
trees, especially for orchard planting, instead of .selecting the largest that can Ite had, 
to secure a more immediate effect. They can be taken up with more perfect roots, 
and will become sooner established in a new location. They can also be more readily 
trained to any desired shape. The largest and most successful planters invariably 
select young, thrifty trees, as the surest in the end to give thorough satisfaction. 
For small grounds, or street planting, when it is necessary to make a sliow as 
soon as possible, large trees are often desirable, and when handled with care should 
not fail to do well ; but with the general planter the average of loss will be much less, 
and both time and money will be saved if youn,g trees are selected to commence with. 
THE GROWTH OF TREES 
As many persons are unacquainted with the varied .growth of the different varieties 
of fruit trees, and are rlissatisfied with the difference in appearance of their trees, we 
will briefly give a few e.xamples, thereby hoping to avoid a most unpleasant difficulty 
sometimes taking place between the ine.xperienced purchaser and the nurserjnian. 
h'or instance : were a customer to order a lot of apple trees, naming amongst them 
.American .Summer Pearmain, Tetofsky, Albemarle Pippin, etc., he would get some 
of the finest \ arieties umler culture, but the trees would be small ; consequently, the 
nurseryman must suffer a severe lecture, and, next, his neighbors would be advised 
not to patronize that man, for his trees are too small. .Should he order a lot of Sum- 
mer Sweet Paradise, .Summer Queen, Smokehouse, W’inesap and Koxbury Russet, 
he would get large, rapid-growing trees and choice fruit, but so crooked and tv\ isted 
as again to displease the purchaser. Kut should he send for Hullock Pippin, Ikiltzley,. 
Paradise, Baldwin, Horse, \’ates, I)t)niinie, etc., he would receive large, vvell-formed 
trees which would please his eye and tio doubt cause him to advise his neighbors to 
purchase there, yet some of the fruit would be quite inferior to the other lists. 
DISTANCES FOR PLANTING 
Standard apples 
.Standard pears and strong-growing cherries . 
Duke and Morello cherries 
■Standard plums, apricots, peaches, nectarines 
Dwarf pears 
Dwarf apples . . 
Grapes, rows 8 to i6 feet apart 
Currants and gooseberries 
Raspberries and blackberries 
.Stmwberries, for field culture 
Strawberries, for .garden culture 
30 feet apart each way 
20 
18 
. . . 16 to iS 
. . . 10 to 12 
. . . 10 to 12 
8 to 16 feet in rows 
3 to 4 feet apart 
. . 3 to 4 feet by 5 to 7 feet apart 
I '/i to 3 feet by 3 to 4 feet apart 
I to 2 feet apart 
NUMBER OF TREES ON AN ACRE 
30 feet apart each way 50 
25 “ “ “ ... 70 
20 “ " “ 110 
18 “ •* " 135 
15 “ “ “ 205 
12 “ “ “ 300 
to feet apart each way 
8 
6 
5 
4 “ ■< “ 
3 
435 
680 
1,210 
1,745 
2,725 
4,840 
Rci.e. — M ultiply the distance in feet between the rows by the distance 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 plants or trees to the acre. 
