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system, for a few years at least, works well. But it can 

 scarcely be recommended for general adoption. Event- 

 ually the trees will crowd each other and many of the 

 branches may die. 



Double Planting. By this system of planting is 

 meant the setting of two or more kinds of fruit trees or 

 plants in the same area. In Florida, citrus trees and 

 pineapples, citrus trees and guavas, and citrus trees and 

 peaches are frequently planted together. In Louisiana 





Fig 1 , 59. Double planting Citrus fruits and pineapples. 



citrus trees and pecans are often so planted. A double 

 planting of pomelos and pineapples, a method quite suc- 

 cessfully used by Mr. C. T. McCarty, on hickory scrub 

 land a little north of Fort Pierce, Fla., is illustrated in 

 figure 59. The plan shows the pineapples occupying a 

 portion of the space between the rows of trees. The 

 pomelos are set 17 feet apart in rows which are 22 feet 

 apart. Six rows of pineapples, 15x20 inches apart are 

 set in each twenty-two-foot space. 



This leaves a six-foot space on each side of the pine- 

 apple bed between the edges and the row of trees. The 



