| Show AN ACRE IN FRUIT One Way to Plant It With the Twelve Varieties Commonly Grown Apple trees fifteen years from planting may be expected to produce two bushels each All the other tree fruits may be expected produce onehalf of a bushel in periods Varying from six to fifteen pears from planting To produce thirty bushelsof apples vouldreauire fifteen m i n s nua nveive ousneis or otner treV 1 III II le I 8 Ie ftk lv te se is z TO 1 2B t h u n Fr 2 2 2 a ° 2 ° 3 3e u E EE 33v3J31 0 44P4445SUCS6afl 1 i PLAN FOE PLATING AN AGUE IN FRUIT fruits would require twentyfour trees all of which could be placed on less than threequarters of an acre of ground leaving the remainder of the acre for the berries and grapes Accompanying is a diagram showing how all that is requisite could bo planted plant-ed on an acre without encroaching on I any neighbor even if the acre was bounded on all sides by property belonging belong-ing to others The plot lies east and west and is 16 rods long by 10 rods wide Tho trees marked 1 in rows A and B on the north side are applo trees with ono cherry tree marked 2 in row B The cherries are continued in rowe row-e and three pear trees marked 3 put In to complete the row The trees in these three rows are two rods apart and one rod from the boundary I bound-ary fences In the row D are five pear trees marked 8 six peach trees marked I 4 two plum trees marked D and two quince bushes marked 6all sixteen and I onehalf feet apart in the row Between the quince bushes in the row are planted plant-ed gooseberries and farther west currant I bushes Between the rows G and D are 1 three rows of raspberries marked B audI aud-I between C and B two rows of black berries marked F If the ground is I kept rich and cultivated the berries will suffer but little from shade for a dozen I I years or more and for that matter the I portion devoted to apples could also be I used for raspberries if desired The open space south of the trees containing I con-taining fortyeight rods of ground or nearly onethird of an acre if rich and well cared for should produce of the larger kinds of strawberries such as Sharpless Bubach Jessie or Downing about fifteen bushels if planted to Crescent Cres-cent with onefifth Wilson or Sucker State as fertilizer it might produce thirty thir-ty or thirtyfive bushels The row marked G across the west end consists of nineteen grapevines two and onehalf feet from boundary and eight feet apart To produce four bushels they must yield eleven pounds per vine a possibility not difficult to reach says a correspondent in Farm and Fireside from which our cut is a reprint |
