TRIANGULAR PLANTING JQ^ 



Proceed now to the first half-way stake, and instead of putting 

 the end of the wire at this stake, put the twelve-foot mark there. 

 Put stakes now at each twenty-four foot mark again to locate the 

 trees in that row. In the next row put the end of the wire at the 

 first stake and proceed as in the first row. Thereafter using the end 

 of the wire and the twelve-foot marks alternately, the stakes will 

 be set in quincunx all over the field. If the midway stakes are now 

 pulled out along the two side lines, the remaining stakes show where 

 the trees are to be placed. This way of planting locates about sev- 

 enty-eight per cent more trees upon any given area, but it brings the 

 trees at irregular distances from each other, and except in furnish- 

 ing a way to arrange an orchard with permanent and temporary 

 trees, there does not seem to be any advantage in it. 



PLANTING IN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES 



This is the arrangement generally implied when the term "quin- 

 cunx" is wrongly employed. By it the trees are all equally distant 

 from each other, and thus the ground divided as equally as possible. 

 The arrangement admits fifteen per cent more trees to the acre 

 than the setting in squares, and the ground can be worked in three 

 different directions. This arrangement also gives better facilities 

 for irrigation. Objections are urged to it, however, in that it does 

 not admit of thinning trees by removal of alternate rows, as is some- 

 times desirable, and that one has to take a zigzag course in driving 

 through the orchard. 



Hexagonal planting places the trees as shown in the accompany- 

 ing sketch. 



It is termed hexagonal because, as the figure consists of six 

 trees inclosing a seventh, a line drawn through the encompassing 

 trees makes a hexagon. It is also called septuple planting, because 

 seven trees enter into its figure. 



An orchard can be laid out in hexagonals by using the measuring 

 wire as described for quincunx planting with the distance and half- 

 distance marks, except that the guide stakes in the side rows must 

 be placed at different distances apart. The following table, show- 

 ing the distance for side stakes to reach desired distance between 

 the trees, and the method of calculating the number of trees to the 

 acre by the square and hexagonal or sextuple arrangement: 



Trees set Sextuple Check-stakes should be 



10 feet apart 8 feet 8 inches. 



12 feet apart 10 feet 4 2-5 inches. 



14 feet apart 12 feet % inches. 



16 feet apart 13 feet 10% inches. 



18 feet apart 15 feet 7 inches. 



20 feet apart 17 feet 4 inches. 



21 feet apart 18 feet 2% incnes. 



22 feet apart 19 feet % inches. 



24 feet apart 20 feet f)% inches. 



