Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . andtheir characters are so exceptional that it is dangerous to evenmention them. Methods Vary with Conditions.—There is no question what-ever that the type of culture which it is best to adopt varieswith conditions. Under most conditions cultivation will mostemphatically give the best results (Fig. 34). And yet there areenough orchards where sod culture is practised to show that itcan be made successful. And there are many cases where cultiva- 77 78 ORCHARD CULTURE tion is out of the question and where sod culture must be a
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . andtheir characters are so exceptional that it is dangerous to evenmention them. Methods Vary with Conditions.—There is no question what-ever that the type of culture which it is best to adopt varieswith conditions. Under most conditions cultivation will mostemphatically give the best results (Fig. 34). And yet there areenough orchards where sod culture is practised to show that itcan be made successful. And there are many cases where cultiva- 77 78 ORCHARD CULTURE tion is out of the question and where sod culture must be adoptedbecause it is the only rational method that will fit the circum-stances. The great difficulty is that this method, to be mostsuccessful, requires not only peculiar soil conditions but stilJmore a peculiar type of man, and it is rare that one finds boththe man and the conditions on the same farm. However, the question is not by any means settled, andtharefore it is important to sum up the points in favor of eachot these methods as advanced by their
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