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  • A smart man can attend to 300 or 400 full-bearing trees in six hours if the ground has been well rolled or firmed, as it should be before the bugging operation begins.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • In California we hear (from George P. Keeney) that while good truck and fruit lands usually sell for $25 to $350 per acre, the land with full-bearing fruit or nut trees often sells at $1000, and even up to

    Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896

  • In the mean time he gave a great deal of attention to the improvement of Warrington, expecting to reap his reward from the thousands of fruit-trees which Mr. Noyotte had planted, and which had grown to be full-bearing, in spite of neglect since his death.

    A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools 1879

  • The tree indeed thrives so well, that large branches cut off in the spring and planted two or three feet deep in the ground send out roots and develop into fine full-bearing trees by the third year.

    Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

  • The schools of Spain were budded on a full-bearing tree.

    Castilian Days John Hay 1870

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