272 The Principles of Fruit-growing. 



"Olden and Hale plans for peach orchards. The Olden plan 

 for a peach orchard is, to have the trees 16%xl6% feet 

 apart each way, and in plain squares, making 169 trees per 

 acre, as in the lower section of Fig. 38. At convenient dis- 

 tances for the passage of wagons, roads are laid out, making 



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Hale plan : 289 trees per acre, i:t x lit feet apart. * 



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Olden plan : 169 trees per acre, ll)/^ x 1V feet apart. 



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Pig. 38. Hale and Olden plans (or peach orchard. 



a serios of large blocks. The contour of the ground and 

 intervening rocky hillsides or oak forests left standing, 

 do not always permit these blocks to be of regular size or 

 shape. 



"Then, we have the great Hale peach orchards in Georgia 

 and Connecticut, and who has not heard of them and of 



