38 A TREATISE ON NUT CULTURE. 



left of (7, on the line A B, set stakes as on G m, measuring. from the line A B. 

 There will then be two stakes on the side C D, and using these as guides, the 

 remainder of the line CD may be staked. It will be safer, however, to meas- 

 ure from the base line A B towards C D for each row, as the stakes along C D 

 are liable to be an inch or a few inches out of the places they ought to occupy. 

 Having staked all the ground in this manner, take a board about four feet 

 long and four inches wide, with notches as in the following diagram: 



Be careful to have the notches x and y at equal distances from z, or 

 cut off one corner of the board, as represented by the dotted line, and then 

 be sure to put the same end of the board forward every time, both when 

 completing the staking and when setting the trees. Put the board on the 

 same side, every time of the stakes that mark the places for the trees; that is, 

 not on the west of one, the east of another, etc. Having placed the notch 

 z at one of the stakes already set, set stakes at x and y. When the stakes at 

 z shall have been removed and the hole dug for the tree, the stakes at x and 

 y should remain; then when the board is put to these stakes, in the same 

 position it occupied when they were set, the notch z will mark the exact place 

 for the tree. It is not absolutely necessary to mark all of the ground before 

 digging part of the holes and setting some of the trees. 



Inch redwood boards may be cut into pieces about a foot long, and split 

 up for stakes, or even the thin redwood boards used as a lengthy substitute for 

 shingles may be sawed into three pieces of equal length, and split up. Laths 

 are very good for outside stakes; yet only a few of them are really necessary. 



Persons who are very particular sometimes stretch a rope, as between the 

 points G and m t and measure along the rope. The measure should be a 

 straight pole, as long as the distance the trees are to be set apart. 



The foregoing does not apply so well to very uneven ground as to ground 

 nearly level; or rather, it is more difficult to apply these principles to very un- 

 even ground, as it is more difficult to survey hills and mountains than to survey 

 . a level plain. 



