A TREATISE ON NUT CUI/riJRE. 



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manner, setting two stakes at every move of the triangle. Then in digging 

 the holes for the trees I use a triangle made of lath and shaped like the larger 

 one. Place it on the ground so that the notch at c is against the stake; then 

 stick a short stake in the other two corners d and <?, and proceed to the next 

 one. The use of the smaller triangle is the same as Mr. Warner's jiotched 

 board. It enables us to set the trees exactly where the stakes were set, and 

 thus insure a better looking job than if the trees were set hap-hazard. If 

 twenty or eighteen feet is the distance required, the twenty-four feet triangle 

 can be reduced to the proper size. By its use the stakes are set rapidly, and far 

 more accurately than by any other method I have ever tried. If the ground is 

 smooth and level, and the first line set accurately, the result will be satisfactory. 

 Strips of board will not shrink nor stretch like rope, and I believe will 

 give better satisfaction than the looped wire plan. This triangle can also be 

 used to determine the exact right angle from the base line A B. From the 

 point .if, half way between c and d, to e, describes an exact right angle to the 

 line A B ; but in the quincunx order of planting no attention is paid to right 

 angles. 



