Hexagonal or Quincunz Planting. 265 
reference to any other trees in any other part. 
The writer has planted about 150 acres of apple 
and 100 acres of peach orchard on this plan, and 
has furnished many parties brief descriptions of same 
for planting; has planted rows 30 to 40 rods long 
of nice trees, so straight in line that a stake two 
inches in diameter sct up in the row would hide 
every tree from view, looking from the end thereof.” 
Orchard pluns.—Van Deman* writes fully upon 
the methods of constructing a plan of an orchard, 
as follows: 
“The hexagonal, Tan Deman plan.—The plan that will best 
economize space is what is known as the ‘hexagonal’ plan. It 
is a system of equilateral triangles, and is sometimes called the 
‘triangular’ system. It puts all adjacent trees equally distant 
from each other. This is the plan I have followed in all my 
own plantings, and now think it the best I have ever seen. I 
have practiced upon the additional idea of planting temporary 
trees alternately with permanent ones, and leaving alleys be- 
tween every fifth and sixth row, which I have never seen in any 
other orchards of the hexagonal style; therefore, I have called 
this part of it the ‘Van Deman’ plan. In the lower part of 
Fig. 33 it may be seen. By this plan there may be planted 
156 trees per acre one rod apart, with every sixth row left out 
for an alley, which gives easy access to wagons for gathering 
fruit, and for any other necessity. The permanent trees are 
marked by the letter P throughout this and all the other plans. 
These trees are two rods, or 33 feet, apart, which, for apple trees 
in most climates and soils, is sufficient. In Michigan, Pennsyl- 
vania, New York and some other localities where apple trees 
*H. E. Van Deman, “Plans for Orchard Planting,” Rural New-Yorker, 
March 6 and 13, 1897. Revised for this occasion by Mr. Van Deman. 
For tables giving the number of plants to the acre, see “ The Horticultur- 
ists’ Rule-Book,” 4th ed., pp. 115-119. 
