QUINCUNX PLANTING. 



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planted between them in both directions. By this 

 method, when the trees commence to bear fruit, and 

 during the first fifteen years, they receive four times 

 the quantity which they would have done in the 

 old method, which often amounts to a full crop 

 from an established orchard. When they begin to 

 interlock, the superfluous trees are cut out. 



The old method of planting the pear intensively 

 may be seen in the figure below. 



(a) denotes the standard 

 pears, sixteen to twenty feet 

 distant. 



(h) the dwarfs, 

 (c) small fruits; such as 

 currants, raspberries,or straw- 

 berries. 

 The beauty of the orchard, as well as its utility, 

 is a point to be considered by the cultivator, when 

 the latter is not sacrificed to the former, and the 

 quincunx is therefore generally preferred. 



(a) (b) and (c) correspond 

 to the same numbers in the 

 preceding diagram, and (r/) 

 represents a line of grape 

 vines, extending around the 

 whole. The manner of lay- 

 ing out this plan upon the ground may confuse 

 p the planter, and we therefore give a more simple 

 method. On examination, it will be found that the 



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