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Setting out the Orchard 



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THE QUINCUNX SYSTEM. 



THE TREES. In making a selection of your trees, be careful 

 to secure only the best; a poor specimen is an expensive luxury 

 even as a gift, and will never repay cost of care and cultivation. 

 Bear in mind that we put out only clean, healthy, well grown 

 and vigorous stock, true to name and up to every requirement 

 calculated to produce with reasonable care and cultiyation, 

 profitable crops of merchantable fruit. This purchasers can 

 always depend on. Our total acreage in trees is now over 100 

 acres, all of which is devoted exclusively to citrus trees of our 

 own growing. 



SETTING OUT THE ORCHARD. Having the right kind of 

 soil in the proper condition, with true-to name and well-grown 

 trees, we may with safety proceed to plant. In doing so, exercise 

 care in having your orchard symmetrical in order to economize the 

 area to be planted. There are several methods or systems 

 whereby this may be attained, and in order to make them clear 

 and better understood, we here present illustrations of square, 

 quincunx, hexagonal and triangular methods. 



THE SQUARE SYSTEM. This is the most approved method. 

 The orchard is laid off in lines crossing each other, with equal 

 intervals of space, and a tree is planted at each crossing of lines. 

 By the square method, at 20 feet apart, 108 trees are planted to 

 the acre. The preferable distances for planting are twenty 

 feet for dwarf varieties, twenty-four feet for Navels and Medi- 

 terranean Sweets, and thirty feet for all seedling types. 



QUINCUNX SYSTEM. In this system the orchard is laid off 

 in the same manner as for square planting, except that the number 

 of rows are doubled, and a tree planted in the center of every 

 square. This method is chiefly used in planting with the 

 idea of removing the center trees after those designed 

 to be permanent shall have attained a considerable size; 

 the orchard then assumes the square plan. At 20 feet apart, 199 

 trees are planted to an acre by this method. 



HEXAGONAL, OR SEPTUPLE, SYSTEM. In this system 

 the trees are equilateral (equally distant from each other) and 

 more completely fill the space than any other system can. Six 

 trees form a hexagon and enclose a seventh. The lines in the 

 figure indicate the method of laying out the orchard. By the 

 hexagonal system, at 20 feet apart, 126 trees are planted to the 

 acre. 



The following table will show the number of trees to the acre by 

 the square, quincunx, and hexagonal, or septuple, systems: 



Hexagonal 

 Distance apart. Square or Septuple Quincunx. 



10 feet _ . 436 500 831 



12 feet .. 303 347 571 



14 feet .. .. 222 255 415 



16 feet .. . 170 195 313 



18 feet .. 134 154 247 



20 feet .. . 108 126 199 



22 feet . 90 103 173 



24 feet .. 76 96 137 



30 feet 48 56 83 



Note. In giving the distances of trees of the quincunx, the 

 fifth or central tree is not taken into account. 



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