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THE FRUIT GROWER'S GUIDE. 



diagonally, and every tree is the centre of each vacancy between two trees in the row 

 on each side of it. 



To mark out the ground for the trees set stakes for the first row as in square 



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Fig. 26. A, EQUILATEEAI, TEIANQIE ; B, OPPOSITK VACANCY PLANTING. 



planting, placing the stakes where the first, second, and third trees are to be planted 

 in the first row, say 15 feet apart, as shown in the diagram (Fig. 27), marked 1, 2, 3. 

 Fasten a tape to the first stake (1), and at the distance from it the trees are to be 



