. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. 82 CULTIVATION OF THE ,. trees from six to twelve feet apart in the rows. This mode admits of deep and thorough cultivation, and the team can pass freely in one direction, until close to the row, where the soil need not be turned up so deeply, or so a<f to # * # * * ********* ***** ****** * * * * * ****** ***** ****** Fig. 42. Fig. 43. in
. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. 82 CULTIVATION OF THE ,. trees from six to twelve feet apart in the rows. This mode admits of deep and thorough cultivation, and the team can pass freely in one direction, until close to the row, where the soil need not be turned up so deeply, or so a<f to # * # * * ********* ***** ****** * * * * * ****** ***** ****** Fig. 42. Fig. 43. injure the roots. Fig. 42 exhibits this mode of planting, and fig. 43 another mode, where the trees are in hexagons, or in the corners of equilateral triangles, and are thus more equally distributed over the ground than by any other ar- rangement. They may thus be cultivated in three direc- tions. For landscape effect, this is undoubtedly better than by any other regular order. Trees are frequently mutilated in cultivating the ground with a team ;* to obviate this difficulty, arrange the horses when they work near the line of trees, one before the other, ad tandem. Let a boy ride the forward one, use long tra- ces and a short whipple-tree, and place the whole in the charge of a careful man who knows that one tree is worth more than fifty hills of corn or potatoes, and no danger need be feared. In the absence of this arrangement, oxen will be safer than horses. When it becomes necessary for trees to stand in grass, as in. some instances near dwellings, a circle of several feet round each tree must be kept mellow by the spade, fig. 44. The work should be shallow near the tree to prevent injury to the roots, and gradually deepen as it re- _j cedes. This operation when re- peated several times during sum- Fig. 44- mer, has been known to increase the growth five fold. But a not less important result is the * When bark is accidentally rubbed off", if in early summer, the fre
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