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Show LOCATION OF APPLE ORCHARD Best Soil for Fruit Is Deep, Well-Drained Well-Drained Clay Loam Few Other Most Important Details. If we are thinking of planting an apple orchard there are a great many things we need to consider. First of all, the soil. Apples will grow on many types of soil, but a really good apple soil is a deep, well-drained clay loam, says a writer in an exchange. Borings to a depth of three or four feet should be made to determine the subsoil. Clayey or stone clay subsoils sub-soils are good; sandy subsoils are objectionable. ob-jectionable. The location of the orchard or-chard is very important. Some slope is desirable, although It sioiild not be so steep as to induce surface washing. wash-ing. We need also to be able to drive a horse and wagon all over it, so as to give the necessary sprayings and to pick the fruit. The direction of slope is not so important, and we may say that all slopes are about equally good. I would plant one-year budded ::rees and no others, if I could get those well grown. I would like to have them three to four feet in height. It has often been said that such trees may be suitable for states farther south, but they will not do well here in New England. This is not the case, and the best orchards that I have seen have been developed from such trees. |