AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



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may bake to brick. Plant seasonably and carefully, and you 

 will plant successfully. 



ARRANGEMENT AND DISTANCES. 



If found desirable, as it often will be, one or more of the 

 plots of the garden may be appropriated to fruits, in which 

 case, as in planting orchards, whether the various kinds of 

 fruit are combined or not, the trees should not be arranged in 

 exact squares, but in the alternated or diamond form that is, 

 so that each row will line either way, not with the row adjoin- 

 ing it, but with that which is next but one. The distance at 

 which they are to be set should be carefully decided in view 

 of the character and condition of the particular varieties you 

 intend to plant, their modes of growth, and times of ripening 

 their fruit, as well as the nature of the soil in which they are 

 to stand, and the after-treatment they are to receive. 



The following table will afford at a glance the data necessa- 

 ry to the arrangement of their relative distances, and show the 

 area of surface allowed to each by such arrangement. 



TABLE SHOWING THE DISTANCE EVERY WAY BETWEEN TREES PLANTED IN 



THE ALTERNATED OR DIAMOND FORM, AT VARIOUS WIDTHS, WITH THE 



AREA OR NUMBER OF SQUARE FEET OF SURFACE TO EACH TREE, AND 

 THE NUMBER OF TREES UPON AN ACRE. 



If for any cause it is deemed preferable to plant in squares, 

 the following table will be found useful, and its smaller figures 

 may aid calculations of vegetable field-crops. 



