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way of the principal feeders of the orange. Of course the orange 

 trees should be as thoroughly cultivated as if they stood in the open 

 field. Failures in forest culture and there have been some abomina 

 ble failures have occurred only where these points have been disre- 

 garded. 



. The following plan is suggested as one to which it is believed no 

 reasonable exception can be made. Select a forest of tall and thickly 

 set trees, whether of pine or hummock. Clear out the under brush so 

 as to allow a free circulation of air and to enable you to lay off more 

 accurately your land. This done lay off a straight line as the base 

 of operating. Allowing your land to be a plat of five acres lying 

 north and south, let this base line run east and west fifty feet north 

 of, and parallel to your southern boundary. Run a second line one 

 hundred and five feet north of, and parallel to the first; so continue 

 through the plat running these east and west lines at intervals between, 

 alternating from fifty to one hundred and five, and from one hundred 

 and five to fifty feet apart. Now begin on the east side, and fifty feet 

 from your eastern boundary you can run your base line, perpendicu- 

 lar to your first base line. Go th rough the plat as before, alternating 

 the distances between the lines from fifty to one hundred and five feet 

 apart. You now have your land laid off in smaller squares of fifty 

 feet and paralellograms of x fifty by one hundred and five feet. The 

 timber on these smaller squares and parallelograms is to be left stand- 

 ing. You have also a number of large squares 105x105. or about one 

 quarter of an acre each. These larger squares are to be cleared of the 

 timber and made ready for planting orange trees, and each square will 

 be found to be surrounded on all sides by a strip of timber fifty feet 

 wide. Around these squares, next tto the timber, cut a ditch two and 

 a half, or if you wish, three feet deep so as to cut all the roots of forest 

 trees that would interfere with the orange. To prevent this ditch from 

 draining the moisture from the grove fill it with the litter from the 

 orange land and leaves from the forest. The next year clear out this 

 ditch, use the rotten leaves as a fertilizer for your grove and fill the 

 ditch again with leaves from the forest around. By this means you 

 can have an endless supply of manure close at hand, you can have the 

 benefit of the sun and the benefit of forest protection without any 

 damage from the roots from the forest trees. 



