Harrisons' nurseries : "nurserymen - orchardists" . recommend the following apples as fillers in an appleorchard. A very desirable^ early kind is Yeilow Transparent, be-cause the limbs of this variety grow upward. It can be pruned tosuit conditions. Grimes Golden begins to bear very early. A littlelater in season is Wealthy, which is a rather dwarf grower and afine filler. Duchess of Oldenburg is dwarf, also bears early andripens early. The first ^ one mentioned has our j /\ 5 A 3 ^ Tpreference. Bear in mind thatunless fillers are cutout in time they willinterfere and preventstandards from mak
Harrisons' nurseries : "nurserymen - orchardists" . recommend the following apples as fillers in an appleorchard. A very desirable^ early kind is Yeilow Transparent, be-cause the limbs of this variety grow upward. It can be pruned tosuit conditions. Grimes Golden begins to bear very early. A littlelater in season is Wealthy, which is a rather dwarf grower and afine filler. Duchess of Oldenburg is dwarf, also bears early andripens early. The first ^ one mentioned has our j /\ 5 A 3 ^ Tpreference. Bear in mind thatunless fillers are cutout in time they willinterfere and preventstandards from makingas much growth asthey should. But theprofit from fillers, withproper care, makes itwell worth while toplant them. To showour firm belief in fillers,we are using them inour own commercial Orchard-planting plan, diagonal and would ^o. 1 trees permanent; No. 3 tree fillers toplant no other way. be removed in about ten years; No. 2 tree(See diagrams.) fillers to be removed in 20 years. 5 PER CENT DISCOUNT ALLOWED FOR CASH WITH ORDER. N U R S E R Y M E X —O K C H A R D I S T S -52 O -J2 FT- This planting plan is one of the simplestand best we have seen. The permanenttrees are planted 24x32 feet, with a fillertree in the 32-foot space. This gives 54permanent trees and .54 fillers to the follow this method on our own orchards. Distances for Plant-ing. Every orchard-ist seems to have hisown ideas about thedistance apart that histrees should best modern prac-tice shows that 24x;->2feet for apple treesjlives ample space forcultivating. spraying:and picking. On the82-foot line a fillertree can be planted,with the idea that thefillers are to be cat outbefore they interferewith the growth of thepennanent trees. Forthis purpose use anyof the early-maturingpeaches. Duchess. Wealthy. Grimes. York Imperial and YellowTransparent apples are desirable because of their upright growthand early-fruiting habit. Another common distance is 40 by 40 feet. Th
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