Plans for Orchards. 269 
wide spaces running north and south; this makes 98 trees 
per acre. The upper section shows the permanent trees in 
exact squares 32 feet each way, as is now the case in his 
older orchards that have been thinned, 49 trees standing on 
an acre. He has not mixed the varieties, as is indicated in 
LP P P 
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32 trees, 42 feet apart. 
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108 trees, 16 x 20 feet apart, leaving out 2 rows for alleys. 
(SOUTH. ) 
Fig. 36. Parker Earle plan. 
the illustration, so far as I know, but planted such varieties 
in solid blocks as would bear reasonably early; but it would 
seem to me that, if such kinds as Missouri were planted in 
rows between the others and to be removed, it would be better 
than planting each by itself. But, aside from his published 
statements of the results of his enterprise, I know, from a long 
