DISTANCE IN ORCHARDS.
■ ;::r — o — Permanent orchards, trees should not •be nearer than thirty feet, for the larger '•kind of trees thirty-five feet is even better. This will give room both for branches and iroots, allow of cultivation if desired,-and •will-not exhaust the land as badly as closer planting. The fruit also ripens earlier and ’■better than it can in close orchards. The ;.great importance of sunlight in ripening and •coloring the fruit-is not always appreciated. But there is quite a difference in the appearance, quality, and value 6f -fruit which ds grown in a close, dense mass of branches and leaves and that which has the full advantage of light and air. Better fruit and more of it can be grown when the trees are -set a good distance apart than when they are crowded.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 752, 15 September 1876, Page 4
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136DISTANCE IN ORCHARDS. Dunstan Times, Issue 752, 15 September 1876, Page 4
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