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stand from six to ten feet apart in the rows. This 

 mode admits of deep and thorough cultivation, and 

 the team can pass freely in one direction, until 

 close to the row, where the soil need not he turned 



Fig. 5. Fig. 6. 



up so deeply, or so as to injure the roots. Fig. 5 

 exhibits this mode of planting ; and Fig. 6, another 

 mode, where the trees are in hexagons or on the 

 corners of eqilateral triangles, and are thus more 

 equally distributed over the ground than by any 

 other arrangement. They may thus be cultivated 

 in three directions. For landscape effect, this is 

 undoubtedly better than any other regular order. 



Trees are frequently mutilated in cultivating the 

 ground with a team; to obviate this diffiulty, ar- 

 range the horses when they work near the line of 

 trees, one before the other, ad tandem; let a boy 

 ride the forward one, use long traces, and a short 

 whipple-tree, and place the whole in the charge of 

 a careful man who knows that one tree is worth 

 more than fifty hills of corn or potatoes, and no 

 danger need be feared. 



When it becomes necessary for trees to stand in 

 grass, as in some instances near dwellings, a circle 

 of several feet round each tree, must be kept mellow 



