46 QUINCE CULTURE. 
the quincunx plan allows of cultivation all ways, which 
keeps the ground in fine condition with the least labor. 
Laid out in squares fifteen feet apart, an acre will take 
Fig. 20.—LOCATING BOARD, 
two hundred trees ; in quincunx, at the same distance, it 
will take two hundred and twenty-two trees. At twelve 
feet in squares it will take three hundred and two, and 
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in quincunx three hundred and seventy. At ten feet in 
squares it will take four hundred and thirty-five, and in 
quincunx four hundred and ninety-seven trees for an acre. 
