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PERMANENT PLANTATIONS. 



and an equal distance between each tree. Thus, in plant- 

 ing a square of one hundred feet, for example, the trees 

 to be twenty-five feet apart, we commence on one side, 

 laying a line the whole length. On this line we measure 

 oif the distances for the trees, and place a stake indicat- 

 ing the point for the tree. Thus, in fig. 93, we have 

 five rows of five trees each, making twenty-five in all, 

 and all twenty-five feet apart. This is the simplest, and 

 probably the best for very small orchards. The better 

 plan for large orchards is what is called quincunx (fig. 

 91), in which the trees of one row are opposite the spaces 



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Kg. 93, square planting. Fig. 94, quincunx planting. 



in the next. In this way, although the trees are at equal 

 distances, there is a larger clear area around each tree. 

 In fig. 94, the square form, every tree stands in the corner 

 ol' a square in the centre of, and equally distant froir 

 four others. In the quincunx, every tree stands in the 

 angle of a triangle of equal sides, and in the centre of, 

 and equally distant from six others. Thus, in the latter, 



