ORCHARD AND PLANTING PLANS 



Laying Out 

 the Orchard 



An orderly man will have no 

 botchwork in aligning and spac- 

 ing his trees. A 

 crooked row is a 

 sign of a sloven. 

 To keep rows perfectly in line 

 requires but a good eye, a little 

 mechanical skill, and a suffi- 

 cient amount of patience; lacking 

 these a man should employ a 

 surveyor. 



The measuring - wire is the 

 best method of keeping rows 

 straight in a small plantation. It 

 may vary in length from 200 to 

 300 feet. The best wire is made 

 of annealed steel, about an eighth 

 of an inch in diameter. This 

 wire is marked throughout its 

 length by patches of solder, indi- 

 cating the distances between 

 plants. 



In planting in hexagons, lay off the base-lines as for squares, 

 and then use an equilateral triangle of wire, the dimensions equal to 

 the distances between trees, being guided for the first rows by a line 

 of stakes. An iron ring at each angle of the triangle, to drop over 

 stakes, is helpful in this device. It is easy to locate a tree in the center 

 of a square, for planting in the quincunx arrangement. 



Fig. 5. Hexagonal-filler arrangement. 

 Intensive use of fillers — 320 trees, 80 

 apples and 240 peach or other stone- 

 fruits. 



I Permanent trees () Peach fillers 



I Apple fillers O Extra peach fillers 



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