108 SELECTING, PLANTIXG, A2^T> CULTIVATION. 



be planted at ten feet apart in the rows, the cross fur- 

 rows must be plowed five feet distant from each other. 



Every alternate crossing will indicate tlie j^osition 

 of a tree, omitting the first crossing in each alternate 

 row. If the trees are planted quite up to the bound- 

 ary line, this plan would give us five rows of twenty- 

 two, and six rows of twenty-three trees each, or an 

 aggregate of 2^8 trees upon a plot of the size as shown 

 at Fig. 32, which represents half an acre of ground — • 

 although the addition to one side of this of an equal 

 plot of ground would be capable of containing only 

 225 trees. If trained to branch near the ground, ' 

 and properly pruned, 473 trees may be grown and 

 fruited upon an acre, for many years, without crowding. 

 By this method — improperly termed quincunx — each 

 tree would stand ten feet from its neighbors in the 

 same row, and a trifle over twelve feet from the nearest 

 in the adjacent rows. 



The true quincunx arrangement is formed by plac- 

 ing the trees at equal distances from each other in 

 every direction, and when the distance proposed is ten 

 feet, it will be necessary that the rows should be laid 

 out at eight feet eight inches apart, and the trees 

 planted ten feet apart in the rows, as represented in 

 Fig. 32. By this an*angement, each tree occupies the 

 centre of a hexagon of equal sides, and is consequently 

 equidistant fi'om all the adjacent trees — exactly ten 

 feet separating each tree in the plot from its neighbors. 

 By this method, 563 trees maybe planted on an acre, 

 as we gain space for three additional rows. 



For a peai' garden, I have found ten feet to be an 

 ample distance ; and for planting an acre, would recom- 



