How Far Apart?
A very cotnmon blunder is that of setting trees too near together in an orchard. yVhen ürst set out trees require but little room, and the temptation is strong to crowd them. When this is done the roots are not able to obtain suflicient food to promote rapid growth and the branches of the trees interlace and shut out the necessary liglit and sunshine. One of the simplest arrangements of orchard trees is in the spare form, where ihe rows are at equal distances apart and an equal distance is observed bet ween the trees in the ro w. Jn apple orchards thirty feet from tree to tree in all directions is the usual rule. Standard pears require about twenty-live feet. Peach trees should bt; at a distance of from lif teen to eighteen feet, and give best resulta when traneplanteó at one year old from the bid. Standard cherrles are generally set at about the same distance reeominended for peachcs; they may be transplanted at one year from the bud, and should not be over tvvo years old. Plum trees are usually plantod about iifteen feet apart: trees t wo years old from the graft are advised for orchard star dards. Quinces require to be about twelve feet distant from one another, and ought to be at least two years old from the layer or bud. All that is human must retrogade if it do not ad vanee. - Gibbon.
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