Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-21
Planting Out an Orchard.

AS the fall is, III our opinion, deci-
dedly preferable for planting out an or
chard of fruits, and the season is now
at hand for securing stock for the pur-
| pose, we cannot do better than repeat
our advice to our friends to lose no time
In ordering their supplies from the most
| convenient and reliable nurserymen, the
better to secure prompt attention, and
to obtain the varieties that may be or
dered before the supply is exhausted,
which is frequently the case, and disap-
pointment consequently ensues. And
our oft-repeated caution is again pre-
sented, to avoid the many tree peddlers
who are every season going the rounds,
selling by highly-colored engravings of
fruits, and catalogues of well-known
nurserymen, varieties Of fruit which fire.
quently are found, after years of patient
waiting, to be the very reverse Of what
you bargained for, and are generally
worthless to you. The safest plan is
always to order from weu-established
reputable houses, and there are many of
them in the land, so that you may be
satisfied Of receiving the fruit you may
desire.
A few hints may not be out of place
at this time, in showing the present
plan Of planting young orchards, adopt
ed, we understand, by our most success
full fruit growers. The accompanying
plan represents one acre of apples, at
thirty feet apart, filed up with smaller
growing varieties of trees, the Standard
pear occupying the space between the
four apple trees. Being pyramidical
grower, and not spreading as the apple,
they do not interfere with each other.
You can set your apples at any distance;
but you can fill up with the smaller
growing trees, SO as to economist
ground, for it is a great loss to plant and
grow an orchard on the old principle
forty to fifty feet apart, without any
trees between them. By planting as
recommended, you will have 165 trees
to the acre, and on the old plan OF
planting at forty feet, you will see you
have but twenty-seven trees to the acre,
taking six acres Of ground for what it is
recommended you to put on one acre.
And it must be evident that it is much
easier and cheaper to cultivate l65 trees
on one acre than to have them scattered
over six acres, to say nothing of the five
acres of land saved by planting as advis-
ed. Pear orchards should be planted on
the same principle; the between places
planted with dwarfs. The ground for
young orchards should be well cult
waited by raising vegetables, truck, etc.
among them, the proceeds of which will
be profitable, while the orchard will be
greatly benefited by the manure and
the culture bestowed on the plants.
Never SOW grain or grass seed in a
young orchard. Among the many adj
vantages gained by Introducing the
small growing trees, aside from the
great profit, is the economy of land,
and you can head the trees low, so as to
shade the trunks and the ground, which
is indispensable to, successful fruit.
growing, and then the farmer has no in
ducement to SOW his orchard down in
grass, as he cannot turn in stock with
out the certainty of having them de-
stroyed, as it is commended that young
fruit trees are not profitable food fol-
stock. Trim all fruit trees in the month
of June, if convenient, except newly
planted orchards, which should always
be trimmed in spring after planting, nc
difference whether fall or spring plant.
ing.
The following plan of planting out al
orchard of one acre OF ground, thirty
feet apart, filed up with other smaller
growing trees, is recommended by al
experienced nurseryman:
i Forty-eight standard apples. thirt,
feet apart, marked thus, Q.
Thirty-fve standard pears, or stand
ard cherries, marked thus, s.
! Eighty-two dwarf pears, dwarf apples