Planting of a Vineyard. 



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prepared in the manner indicated, the rows for planting 

 must be marked out, and, for this purpose, any regular 

 method of laying out may be selected. The following 

 may be adopted it is very easily executed, and gives 

 good results : 



We will suppose that the surface of the ground has 

 been divided into a certain 

 number of parallelograms, 

 by roads previously cut, as 

 directed above. Let us now 

 suppose that Figure 1 8 is 

 one of these parallelograms, 

 and that the vineyard is to 

 be laid out in rows parallel 

 to its length, forty inches in 

 width, and with a space of 

 twenty inches between the 

 plants on the lines. By 

 means of a surveyor's chain [FiG. 18.] 



of sufficient length, the links of which are forty inches 

 long, the end of each line A, is marked out with a 

 stake on the two lines B, of the parallelogram. These 

 stakes being fixed, two or three more in C, are marked 

 out, according to the length of the lines. By means of 

 these stakes and another chain, the place of each plant 

 is then marked out. The links of this second chain 

 must be twenty inches in length. 



If the plan had to be laid out on a surface with an 

 irregular boundary, the largest possible parallelogram 

 would have to be drawn, and the lines then laid out as 

 just described ; it will only be necessary to extend the 

 lines to the boundary. 



