39S DONIPHAN COUNTY, KANSAS. 



I. R. PIERCE, 



WHITE CLOUD, DONIPHAN COUNTJ. 



The Most Advantageous Manner of Planting Orchards. 



HOW I SET OUT A PLANTATION. 



I have a preference for the quincunx form in setting out a 

 plantation. You will observe, by close attention to my dia- 

 gram, that twenty-one and a half feet of ground are saved by 

 adopting this form in setting five rows. Get the trees thirty 



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Form No. 1. 



feet apart in all directions. This saving of ground is quite an 

 object. It saves about five feet four and one-half inches to 

 each row or space between the rows of trees. Another advan- 

 tage is, it is more ornamental, and if the rows are set north and 

 south, three rows form a perfect wind-break on the west and 

 east sides of the orchard. When set east and west, then the 

 wind-break is on the north and south sides of the orchard. To 

 set an orchard according to No. 1, or quincunx form, the plat 

 of ground to be set to trees should be squared as you would 

 square the foundation for a building. This maybe done in the 

 following manner; I have always commenced at the north- 



