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wide spaces running north and south ; this makes 98 trees 

 per acre. The upper section shows the permanent trees in 

 exact squares 32 feet each way, as is now the case in his 

 older orchards that have been thinned, 49 trees standing on 

 an acre. He has not mixed the varieties, as is indicated in 



(NORTH.) 



P K p K |- p K |- K I' p K 



P K p K P p K p K P p y 



P K P K P P K P K P P K 



P V P K P P F P K P P K 



108 trees, 16 x20 feet apart, leaving out 2 rows for alleys. 



(SOUTH.) 

 Fig. 36. Parker Earle plan. 



the illustration, so far as I know, but planted such varieties 

 in solid blocks as would bear reasonably early ; but it would 

 seem to me that, if such kinds as Missouri were planted in 

 rows between the others and to be removed, it would be better 

 than planting each by itself. But, aside from his published 

 statements of the results of his enterprise, I know, from a long 



