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FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL NURSERY STOCK 
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Baldwin, the great money-making Apple of the northern 
orchards. The fruit keeps late in prime condition 
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: 
Square method 
Triangular meth 
40 feet apart 
27 trees 
31 trees 
35 feet apart 
35 trees 
40 trees 
30 feet apart 
50 trees 
55 trees 
25 feet apart 
70 trees 
80 trees 
20 feet apart 
110 trees 
125 trees 
18 feet apart 
135 trees 
155 trees 
15 feet apart 
195 trees 
225 trees 
12 feet apart 
305 trees 
350 trees 
10 feet apart 
435 trees 
505 trees 
8 feet apart 
680 trees 
775 trees 
6 feet apart 
1,210 trees 
1,600 trees 
5 feet apart 
1,745 trees 
2,010 trees 
4 feet apart 
2,722 trees 
3,145 trees 
3 feet apart 
4,840 trees 
5,590 trees 
2 feet apart 
10,890 trees 
12,575 trees 
1 foot apart 
43,560 trees 
50,300 trees 
Trees sometimes can be planted to advantage 
farther apart one way than another. To do this, 
you have to work out the plan for your own orchards. 
This plan works best on steep hills. The rows should 
follow the lines of the hill to make driving easier. 
No rules can be laid down for hillside arrangement. 
Use some modification of the plans given here. 
(See diagrams.) 
Distances for Planting. Avoid setting per¬ 
manent trees too close together. They feed over a 
wide area if they have the opportunity, and they are 
the better for it. Our plan is to set three peach trees 
to one standard apple. Where peach trees are used 
as fillers, we get from fifty to two hundred trees on 
an acre, depending on many things. Some varieties 
are naturally smaller growers than others, and can 
be planted closer; also the section has something to 
do with it. For instance, trees grow bigger in 
Pennsylvania or Delaware than in Michigan or the 
West. The system of pruning adopted, as well as 
the price of land, has something to do with the 
distance the trees should be apart. Leave plenty 
of room for spraying, cultivating, driving about 
with wagons, etc. Keep the trees far enough away 
from boundary fences, and never plant them closer 
than 40 feet (100 feet is better) to thick woods or 
an evergreen windbreak. Privet needs only 20 feet, 
and in most sections is as good as any known plant 
for windbreaks. Fillers, of course, alter the distances 
given, as they merely occupy the ground before the 
permanent trees get big enough. The following 
gives the shortest distances at which permanent 
trees should be set: 
Permanent apple trees need 50, 40, or 30 feet 
between each other, depending on various conditions 
named above (dwarfs 10 to 15); pears 20, 25 to 30; 
quinces 15 to 18; peaches 13, 18, 21 to 25 feet; 
plums 15, 20 to 25 feet; sour cherries the same as 
peaches, and sweet cherries the same as pears (in 
some sections 40 to 50 feet); grapes should be put 
6 by 8 feet to 8 by 10 feet; strawberries from 18 
inches each way to 1 by 4 feet; raspberries from 
