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modern quincunx order, distributes them more uniformly 

 over the ground than if planted in any other manner. 

 Whatever is put out in this style will stand in straight 

 rows in four different directions. Indian corn, or any 

 other crop that grows in hills, may be cultivated in the 

 quincunx order more satisfactorily and profitably than if 

 the rows were to cross each other at right angles. When 

 rows are formed in the modern quincunx order, the horse- 

 hoe may be run four different ways between them, thus en- 

 abling the cultivator or horse-hoe to do the work of pulver- 

 ization, or rooting up the weeds and grass, more thorough- 

 ly than when the implement can be driven only one or two 

 ways. 



Planting trees and grape-vines in the modern quincunx 

 order has frequently been recommended as the most desir- 

 able way of putting them out. But the writers told every 

 thing about the operation except what a practical man de- 

 sires to know, and what a beginner must understand before 

 he can proceed to lay out the ground correctly. Some writ- 

 ers who probably never attempted to stake out ground 

 in the quincunx order have even given the number of feet, 

 inches, and fractions of an inch, from tree to tree, when 

 measuring at a right angle. But working-men, who are not 

 accustomed to measuring inches and fractions of Inches, 

 need a more convenient and expeditious way of staking out 

 ground than to measure with a two-foot rule, from one 

 point to another, on the surface. When the ground is cor- 

 rectly laid out in the modern quincunx order, the plot be- 

 tween any three corners, or between any three trees, will be 

 exactly in the form of an equilateral triangle. If, for exam- 

 ple, it were desirable to mark out the ground in a large field 

 for planting Indian corn or potatoes in the modern quincunx 

 order, the correct and easy way would be to do the mark- 

 ing as usual, all one way, first, by commencing on the long- 



