Distance Apart to Plant Fruit Trees.
With apple treed, thirty feet may be considered a good average distjance, or a little more th n this or low, spreading varieties, and two or three feet less for those that make a niore Upright growth. For the peach tree, twenty feet fehould be allowed, nl though in some localities closer pantinp is followed. Cherries, pears and apricuis should tiot be planted closer than twenty feet, unless it be the dwarf varieties of pears, when of course closer plaiting- can readily be done Plums will bear close planting probably better than any other variety of fruit, and especially when goowia^ near the poultry yard. With small fruits, lW rows should always be far enough apart to admit of cultivating Wcvaen the tree* readily with the horse and cultivator. When planting, ou-, this may seem, -wide, hut alter the plants have made- two yeais- growth, we will readily a^rfce that it is the > e&t.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 329, 2 June 1894, Page 4
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160Distance Apart to Plant Fruit Trees. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 329, 2 June 1894, Page 4
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