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Show AGINQ TREES BEFORE PLANTING. Can Be Done by the Farmer to Advan-tage Advan-tage If He Economizes on Space. In my orphard I started to test a plan that I am working out much more extensively on my own farm, that ot 'H growing tho orchard beforo I plant It out, says A. Sulloy, of Connecticut. This Is, instead of planting throo or four-year-old trees In tho orchard, put thorn In a nursory row about two feet v: apart and trim about tho samo as It planted In tho orchard. Grow them two years, pull up, trim again, and again plant thorn, giving thorn more space, and at tho end of two mora years tako to tho orchard. I havo takon this experiment far enough to feel sure that I can grow 1,000 troes on a quarter of an aero at loss ex-penso ex-penso than In tho field and havo tho lattor cloar to Improvo or crop In full. Do not confound this work with tho old Idea of bearing ago troes. Thoy must bo handled on or near tho farm whoro thoy aro to bo used, as tho bulk will provont shipping them. It 39 Is oxactly tho samo process as Is usod affl by ninny ornamental stock growers, BE and for tho samo purposo. Kmi |