. Biggle orchard book [microform] : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form. Fruit-culture. 52 ORCHARD HOOK & Cultivation ok Young Trees.—John A. Warder, in his book about apples, says : " If the ground, which has been appropriated to the orchard, be also occupied as fanning land, as is usually done for a few years after planting, while the trees are small, it should be exclusively devoted to hoed crops ; by which is meant those that require constant cultivation and stirring of the ; That's the idea, exactly. While the tr
. Biggle orchard book [microform] : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form. Fruit-culture. 52 ORCHARD HOOK & Cultivation ok Young Trees.—John A. Warder, in his book about apples, says : " If the ground, which has been appropriated to the orchard, be also occupied as fanning land, as is usually done for a few years after planting, while the trees are small, it should be exclusively devoted to hoed crops ; by which is meant those that require constant cultivation and stirring of the ; That's the idea, exactly. While the trees are coining into bearing, and before they have need of all the land, we can kill two birds with one stone— i. e., give tillage to the trees and cultivation to a. STRAWBERRIES IN YOUNG PEACH ORCHARD marketable crop, all at one operation. We can, for several years, grow strawberries in rows, or potatoes, or some other cultivated crop. What we ought not to do, is to grow hay or any of the grain crops; nor should we let the land grow up to weeds. If we do not care to grow any crop on the land except trees (and some large orchardists prefer this method), we should plow the ground in early spring, and then har- row it regularly every two weeks until about August first,—at which time some '' cover crop'' is sown. (See Chapter IX.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : Wilmer Atkinson Co.
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