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lateral triangle : then remove, holding one end at 

 the second stake, I, and the other at the third, C ; 

 stretch the chain and thrust in a stake at its angle 

 or middle as before. Thus you may proceed from 

 stake to stake till that row be planted ; and so on 

 from row to row, till the whole plot be staked out. 

 Remember to set the stakes straight and perpen- 

 dicular, considering their thickness also; inall which 

 if you be not very exact, you cannot avoyd error, 

 before you come to the other side. 



A fourth way of planting, is that which is ordin- 

 arly used in thickets, fig. 8, for when the trees grow 

 large, every other row (suppose the short ones) 

 may be taken out, that the rest may have freedom, 

 and so benefited by the sun and air ; thus one fruit- 

 tree at large will bear more than four crowded ones, 

 and yet continue in as good order ; and will answer, 

 in some measure, the expectations of those who 

 complain, while their orchards are young, of their 

 having few fruit, seeing the more trees they have, 

 the more fruit is to be expected : therefore, when 

 their branches begin to meet, they ought to remove 

 them, lop and plant them by their hedges, I mean 

 by the divisors of their corn-land, and the trees, be- 

 ing now full grown, and able to defend themselves. 



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