Planting of a Vineyard. 



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prepared in the manner indicated, the rows for planting 



must be marked out, and, for this purpose, any regular 



method of laying out may be selected. The following 



may be adopted — it is very easily executed, and gives 



good results : 



We will suppose that the surface of the ground has 



been divided into a certain 



number of parallelograms, 



by roads previously cut, as 



directed above. Let us now 



suppose that Figure 18 is 



one of these parallelograms, 



and that the vineyard is to 



be laid out in rows parallel 



to its length, forty inches in 



width, and with a space of 



twenty inches between the 



plants on the lines. By 



means of a surveyor's chain [Fig. 18.] 



of sufficient length, the links of which are forty inches 



long, the end of each line A, is marked out with a 



stake on the two lines B, of the parallelogram. These 



stakes being fixed, two or three more in C, are marked 

 out, according to the length of the lines. By means of 

 these stakes and another chain, the place of each plant 

 is then marked out. The links of this second chain 

 must be twenty inches in length. 



If the plan had to be laid out on a surface with an 

 irregular boundary, the largest possible 'parallelogram 

 would have to be drawn, and the lines then laid out as 

 just described ; it will only be necessary to extend the 

 lines to the boundary. 



