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HARRISONS’ NURSERIES. BERLIN, MD.. U. S. A. 
Bcnr in mind that unless fillers arc cut out in time they will 
interfere and prevent standards from making as much growth 
as they should. But the profit from fillers, with proper care, 
makes it well worth while to plant them. To show our firm 
belief in fillers, we are using them in our own commercial 
orchards and would plant no other way. 
Distances for Plant* 
ing. Every orchard- 
ist seems to have his 
own ideas about the 
distance apart that his 
trees should stand. 
The best modern prac¬ 
tice shows that 24x32 
feet for apple trees 
gives ample space for 
cultivating. spraying 
and picking. On the 
32-foot line a filler 
tree can be planted, 
with the idea that the 
fillers are to be cut out 
before they interfere 
with the growth of the 
permanent trees. For 
this purpose use any 
of the early-maturing 
>—32 PT.- 
• o 
1—32 PT.- 
o • 
This planting plan is one of the simplest 
and best we nave seen. The permanent 
trees arc planted 24x32 feet, with a filler 
tree in the 32.foot space. This gives 54 
permanent trees and 54 fillers to the acre. 
\Vc fpilow this method on our own orchards. 
peaches. Duchess. AVealthy. Grimes, York Imperial and Yellow 
Transparent apples are desirable because of their upright growth 
and early-fruiting habit. 
Another common distance is 40 by 40 feet. This has many 
supporters among practical orchard men. but our experience in 
our own orchards is in favor of the 24 by 32-foot plan. 
The bush fruits—currants, raspberries, etc.—can be used as 
intercrops and permitted to remain for five or six years. Straw¬ 
berries. too. are successfully grown between the fruit trees, and 
many orchardists make good money from a planting of tomatoes. 
The land between the trees ought to be used—and can be—for at 
least five years. 
When you invest the $u0 to $100 an acre that it takes to plant 
an orchard and care for it five years, you want to make it pay as 
much as possible and as quickly as possible. It is a plain business 
proposition. Because of this, we say plant two or three of the 
best-paying vaneties and then grow crops between the rows. We 
advise every planter of an apple orchard to put peach trees be¬ 
tween the apple trees as fillers for the first eight or ten years, if 
you want to grow poaches and the land is suited to peaches. If 
the land is not adapted for peaches, plant apple fillers and grow 
beans, peas, tomatoes, early potatoes or other vegetables between 
the rows of trees for two or three years. The use of fillers and 
intercrops will make your orchard pay from the very beginuiug. 
Early bearing of fruit trees depends somewhat on treatment, but 
to a larger extent on the varieties planted. York Imperial and 
Yellow Transparent, especially, will bear abundantly when they 
arc from four to six years old. 
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; 
Feet 
Square 
Triangular 
Feet 
Square 
Triangular 
apart 
method 
method 
apart 
method 
method 
40 
2 7 trees 
31 trees 
10 
435 trees 
505 trees 
35 
3.'» trees 
40 trees 
8 
C80 trees 
775 trees 
80 
50 trees 
55 trees 
0 
1,210 trees 
1,600 trees 
25 
70 trees 
80 trees 
0 
1,745 trees 
2,010 trees 
20 
110 trees 
125 trees 
4 
2,722 trees 
3,115 trees 
18 
135 trees 
155 trees 
3 
1,810 trees 
5,590 trees 
195 trees 
225 trees 
2 
lO.SOO trees 
12.575 trees 
12 
305 trees 
350 trees 
r 
48,500 trees 
50,800 trees 
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