96 Planting in Triangles. 
wire place another mark just half way between the end and the 
first tree mark; that is, if the trees are to be twenty-four feet 
apart in the squares, this additional mark should be twelve feet 
from the end of the wire. Now set the first row with the end 
of the wire at the corner stake, and set stakes at each twenty-four- 
foot mark. 
Proceed now to the first half-way stake, and instead of put- 
ting the end of the wire at this stake, put the twelve-foot mark 
there. Put stakes now at each twenty-four-foot mark again to 
locate the trees in that row. In the next row put the end of 
the wire at the first stake and proceed as in the first row. There- 
after using the end of the wire and the twelve-foot marks alter- 
nately, the stakes will be set in quincunx all over the field. If 
the midway stakes are now pulled out along the two side lines, 
the remaining stakes show where the trees are to be placed. This 
way of planting locates about seventy-eight per cent more trees 
upon any given arca, but it brings the trees at irregular distances 
from each other, and except in furnishing a way to arrange an 
orchard with permanent and temporary trees, there does not 
seem to be any advantage in it. 
PLANTING IN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES. 
This is the arrangement generally implied when the term 
“quincunx” is wrongly employed. By it the trees are all equally 
distant from each other, and thus the ground as equally divided 
as possible. The arrangement admits 
fifteen per cent more trees to the acre 
than the setting in squares, and the 
ground can be worked in three differ- 
ent directions. This arrangement also 
gives better facilities for irrigation. 
Objections are urged to it, however, 
in that it does not admit of thinning 
trees by removal of alternate rows, as 
is sometimes desirable, and that one 
has to take a zigzag course in driving 
through the orchard. 
Hexagonal planting places the 
trees as shown in the accompanying 
sketch, 
It is termed hexagonal because, 
as the figure consists of six trees in- 
closing a seventh, a line drawn through the encompassing trees 
makes a hexagon. It is also called septuple planting, because 
seven trees enter into its figure. 
An orchard can be laid out in hexagonals by using the 
Trees Planted in Hexagons. 
