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I have ten acres in fruit trees. I have apples, pears, 

 peaches, cherries, and plums, which are all set in the above form. 

 Strings or ropes should not be used in measuring distances at 

 which to set fruit trees, as their elasticity will spoil the process. 



Form No. 2. 



I have seen orchards set as per form No. 2, that claimed to 

 be quincunx form. But it is easy to see the mistake. By that 

 form the compass circle onl}'' takes in four trees, with one in 

 the center. Then again, in the middle row in that form, the 

 trees are about eighteen feet from those on each side of it. 

 The trees in rows are thirty feet apart. This is done by setting 

 the trees in the old-fashioned square form, and then setting a 

 tree in the center of each square formed by four trees. 



Form No. 3. 



Of form No. 3, or the square form, I have little to say, 

 only that it takes about twenty-one and one-half feet more 

 ground in width, the entire length of the orchard, to set five 

 rows of trees thirty feet apart each way, than it requires for 

 five rows set in the quincunx form. 



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