246 CITRUS FRUITS AND THEIR CULTURE. 



Laying Out in Hexagons. Stretch the wire down one 

 side of the field and firmly set the tree stakes, or stake 

 out the base line by any method, firmly setting a stake 

 for each tree. Then procure two pieces of wire with rings 

 at each end, the length of wire and rings to be exactly 

 the distance between the stakes as set on the base line. 

 Stretch these wires out toward the side where the next tree 

 row is to stand. At the point where the rings overlap 

 set a stake for a tree. Remove wire number one and set 

 it on the third stake in the base line, stretch the two tight 

 and set a tree stake. Repeat as often as necessary. In 

 setting the third row of stakes, use the second as a base 

 line and so on. 



Laying Out in Quincunx. By this method the trees 

 are in groups of five, four forming a square, the fifth 

 placed in the center. 



The best plan is to lay out with a wire, though the 

 plow may be used. In setting with the wire, each space 

 on the wire should be divided in the center and marked 

 as before. If, for instance, to reduce the discussion to a 

 concrete form, we say the trees are to be set in squares 

 of twenty-seven feet, with a fifth in the center, divide the 

 spaces on the wire and mark each one at the thirteen-and- 

 a-half-foot point. On the base line set the trees at the 

 twenty-seven-foot point. Then stretch the line for the next 

 row, thirteen and a half feet in from the base line. On 

 this row set the stakes at the thirteen-and-a-half-foot 

 marks, thus leaving the stakes twenty-seven feet apart as 

 before. Set the third row to correspond with the base 

 line, the fourth with the second, and proceed in this way 

 until the work is completed. 



