Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . ase. The man who wantshis trees headed low usually sees to it that the leaders are keptreasonably low. Planting Distances.—There are several general questionswhich will perhaps come here as well as elsewhere. The firstof these is the matter of the proper distance apart for the trees. PLANTING DISTANCES 59 Of course there are almost innumerable factors which influencethis, the most important being the kind of trees, the individualtaste of the owner, the soil and the method of pruning to beadopted. Some varieties of apples ma
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . ase. The man who wantshis trees headed low usually sees to it that the leaders are keptreasonably low. Planting Distances.—There are several general questionswhich will perhaps come here as well as elsewhere. The firstof these is the matter of the proper distance apart for the trees. PLANTING DISTANCES 59 Of course there are almost innumerable factors which influencethis, the most important being the kind of trees, the individualtaste of the owner, the soil and the method of pruning to beadopted. Some varieties of apples make large trees and some neverattain much size. The Spy or the Baldwin, for example, wantmore room than the Palmer Greening and the Wagener. Some soils will grow large trees of a certain variety while onother soils the same variety is relatively small. The orchardshown in Figure 108, for example, is a block of Baldwins prob-ably not far from thirty years old. They are planted at 33feet apart and yet there is plenty of rcom for them. Theywill never make large
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