. [Fruit culture]. inely pulverized condition. The rows for the currant plants should then be marked outfrom 3 to 3| feet apart and a trench about 6 inches deep openedon each row. If a large quantity of stock is to be planted thetrench may be most economically opened with a trencher,shown in Fig. 5 (a); the detail of the plow is shown in (b).The purchase of such an implement is warranted only when alarge number of plants are set annually, as in a commercial 22 CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES 19 nursery. If only a small niimber of currants are to be plantedthe trench may be opened with a spade. The t
. [Fruit culture]. inely pulverized condition. The rows for the currant plants should then be marked outfrom 3 to 3| feet apart and a trench about 6 inches deep openedon each row. If a large quantity of stock is to be planted thetrench may be most economically opened with a trencher,shown in Fig. 5 (a); the detail of the plow is shown in (b).The purchase of such an implement is warranted only when alarge number of plants are set annually, as in a commercial 22 CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES 19 nursery. If only a small niimber of currants are to be plantedthe trench may be opened with a spade. The trench being ready, a man drops the cuttings or layersat distances along it so that they are convenient for the the bundles are made up of cuttings, the planters, men orboys, take a bundle in one hand and stick the cuttings singlyinto the trench with the other, putting them in straight andfrom 2 to 3 inches apart and of such depth that but two buds,or eyes, project above ground. When the trench is opened. (a) Fig. 5 with a spade it is commonly the case that the man using thespade also sticks the cuttings into the ground, three to thewidth of the spade. As soon as the cuttings are in the groundthe earth should be firmly pressed about them; nothing else inthe planting process is so important as this packing. Whenthe planting is done on a large scale the earth is usually pressedabout the cuttings by a finner, shown in Fig. 6, which isdrawn by horses, but on a small scale the earth is usually
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