Quincunx Planting. 95 
Rows on Hillsides—Laying off orchard or vineyard on hill- 
side too steep to plow both ways, there is advantage sometimes 
in placing the rows up and down the hill nearly twice as far 
apart as the rows along the face of the hill In planting trees 
thus the advantage to be gained is by enabling you to keep the 
team well up the hill; thereby you are able to plow or cultivate 
the trees close on the lower side of the rows. There is no 
difficulty in cultivating the upper side of the rows, for the plow 
or harrow is always below the team. If trees are planted as 
recommended, the team can be guided up the hill a little between 
the rows, then allowed to drop down hill one step, and thus one 
can cultivate the trees close on the lower side. The same rule 
will apply to vines. 
QUINCUNX PLANTING. 
There is much confusion in the use of this term in this State. 
It is, in fact, made to cover almost every kind of arrangement 
which is not on the square. Webster defines the term to mean 
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Quincunx. 
“the arrangement of things, especially of trees, by fives in a 
square, one being placed in the middle of a square.” Trees set 
in quincunx would stand as shown in the accompanying dia- 
gram. To locate them in this form it is only necessary to pro- 
ceed as already described for planting in squares, by fixing upon 
the base line and locating two side lines to it at right angles. 
Place the stakes on these two lines just half the distance desired 
between the trees, and have the measuring wire long enough to 
reach across from one line to the other. Near one end of the 
