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    A Guide to Setting up the Apple Orchard
    A Guide to Setting up the Apple Orchard
    A Guide to Setting up the Apple Orchard
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    A Guide to Setting up the Apple Orchard

    By F. A. Waugh

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    This vintage book contains an easy-to-digest and comprehensive guide to setting up an orchard, with information on tools and equipment, soil, selection of seeds, and much more. All important aspects of setting up and running an orchard are discussed in this guide, and it is thoroughly recommended for the budding home gardener. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned introduction to growing fruit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473391406
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      A Guide to Setting up the Apple Orchard - F. A. Waugh

      A Guide to Setting

      up the Apple

      Orchard

      by

      F. A. Waugh

      CONTENTS

      STARTING THE ORCHARD

      A GOOD NURSERY TREE

      HOW TO GET TREES

      METHODS OF PROPAGATION

      FALL VS. SPRING PLANTING

      DISTANCES FOR PLANTING

      PLANTING TABLES

      DOUBLE PLANTING

      PLANTING OUT THE TREES

      DOUBLE-WORKING

      STARTING THE ORCHARD

      A MATTER of prime importance in starting an apple orchard is to begin with good trees. Everybody seems to know what constitutes a good horse, a good pair of boots, or a well-made suit of clothes, but very few people appear to have the necessary basis for judging the value of nursery stock. It is altogether amusing to see a file of ordinary customers select nursery trees for themselves in nurseries where such direct purchase is possible. Very often large trees are selected without regard to the roots, apparently with the idea that the bigger the top the better the tree. Even when more regard is paid to the proper balance of branches with the root system the principal idea still seems to be to get the biggest trees. The more such a customer can get for the money the better he seems satisfied. Even when these crude errors are avoided others almost as bad are fallen into. Yet this matter is a very important one. It is just as desirable to have good nursery trees as to have good seed, and every farmer considers this one of the first requirements in agriculture. There is as much difference between good trees and poor ones as between good coffee and chicory mixture. On what, then, should a man base his judgment?

      A GOOD NURSERY TREE

      First of all, the trees should be free from insects and disease. Nowadays nursery stock is nearly all liable to official inspection, and this inspection professes to discover all trees infested with obnoxious insects or fungous diseases and to throw them out of the market. A great deal has been accomplished by this system of inspection, although it must be said that in some places it is less effective than in others, and even at its best it cannot furnish an absolute guarantee of immunity. The man

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