Productive farming . Fig. 114.—Several forms of hand pruning shears. fillers are used, the permanent trees should be set fromthirty to forty feet apart, according to variety and soil. Varieties.—Choose varieties carefully. There are manygood varieties to choose from, in all kinds of fruit. Selectthose which are known to do well in your own chmate andon similar soils. Prof. M. A. Blake, of the New Jersey FRUIT PRODUCTION 195 Experiment Station, names the following varieties of peachesin order of ripening as a suitable list from which to choose:Carman, Hiley, Champion, Belle of Georgia, Elberta,
Productive farming . Fig. 114.—Several forms of hand pruning shears. fillers are used, the permanent trees should be set fromthirty to forty feet apart, according to variety and soil. Varieties.—Choose varieties carefully. There are manygood varieties to choose from, in all kinds of fruit. Selectthose which are known to do well in your own chmate andon similar soils. Prof. M. A. Blake, of the New Jersey FRUIT PRODUCTION 195 Experiment Station, names the following varieties of peachesin order of ripening as a suitable list from which to choose:Carman, Hiley, Champion, Belle of Georgia, Elberta, FoxSeedling, Edgemont Beauty, Iron Mountain, and KrummelOctober. Varieties of apples are classified as summer, fall, andwinter, according to the season when they are in prime con-. FiG. 115.—Cultivating an orchard with a disk harrow. Where the land islevel enough to prevent bad washing of the soil, orchards should be cultivatedthroughout the first half of each summer. Plows and disk harrows may be used inearly spring. These are followed by spike-toothed harrows or hght cultivators. dition of maturity,following lists: SummerYellow TransparentWilliams Early RedDuchess of OldenburgMaiden BlushGravenstein Good varieties may be chosen from the FallWealthyTwenty OunceMcintosh RedGrimes GoldenJonathan WinterTompkins KingBaldwinRome BeautyYork ImperialStayman Winesap The above is merely a suggestive list. The planter is tobe governed in his choice of varieties by the results of othergrowers about him in his vicinity. Only one or two varietiesof each season should be grown for market purposes. 196 rRODUCTIVE FARMING Exercise.—Studying Apples.—In the fall or winter letstudents each bring to school good type specimens of each tell the names of the apples h
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