. Smith's seventeeth annual catalogue of the Highland Fruit and Plant Farm, 1899. Nursery stock Kansas Lawrence Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs. 7/ j Right way of planting. For horse culture, plant in rows T)l/2 to 4 feet apart, and in the rows plants may be set from 12 to 15 inches apart. W hen plants are high in price the dis- tance between may be length- ened to 18 or 20 inches. With good cultivation and a moder- Wrong way ofplaatifff. ate season for plant growth, the spaces will be filled up, making it a well matted row of Do not set Plants on a dry, windy day. For
. Smith's seventeeth annual catalogue of the Highland Fruit and Plant Farm, 1899. Nursery stock Kansas Lawrence Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs. 7/ j Right way of planting. For horse culture, plant in rows T)l/2 to 4 feet apart, and in the rows plants may be set from 12 to 15 inches apart. W hen plants are high in price the dis- tance between may be length- ened to 18 or 20 inches. With good cultivation and a moder- Wrong way ofplaatifff. ate season for plant growth, the spaces will be filled up, making it a well matted row of Do not set Plants on a dry, windy day. For setting plants, hardly any two men adopt the same methods or use the same kind of tools. While some planters use a spade, and a boy to carry the plants, others mark off the rows with a horse and narrow shovel plow, opening a furrow three or four inches deep: boys follow dropping the plants while men follow them packing the soil firmly around the plants. We use a line. To each line, two men with bright gard- en trowels and a small box or basket of plants, trimmed and roots moistened in water. v^t jt jt Remember, plants received from abroad must be unpacked on arrival, the bunches loosened and heeled in the ground. What Shall We Plant?—This is a question that is a puzzle to many new beginners. They read over the catalogues carefully, and in most of them they find all kinds so highly recommended that they do not know what to plant. We have tried in all oar catalogues to tell the facts about the different kinds, and how they have served our purpose. Whether productive or not, on our soils, we give the facts as they occur. A new beginner should have h i first experience w'tn some of the lower pric ed varieties, unless he has plenty of money to use in experimenting with high-priced 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
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