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may bal^e to brick. Plant seasonably and carefully, and you 

 ^viU plant successfully. 



ARRANGEMENT AND DISTANCES. 



If found desirable, as it often will be, one or more of the 

 plots of the garden may be appropriated to fruits, in which 

 case, as in planting orchards, whether the various kinds of 

 fruit are combined or not, the trees should not be arranged in 

 exact squares, but in the alternated or diamond form — that is, 

 so that each row will line either way, not with the row adjoin- 

 ing it, but with that which is next Init one. The distance at 

 which they are to be set should be carefully decided in view 

 of the character and condition of the particular varieties you 

 intend to plant, their modes of growth, and times of ripening 

 their fruit, as well as the natiu-e of the soil in which they are 

 to stand, and the after-treatment they are to receive. 



The following table will afford at a glance the data necessa- 

 ry to the arrangement of their relative distances, and show the 

 area of surface allo\yed to each by such arrangement. 



Table showing the Distance eveey way between Tubes planted in 

 the alternated oe diamond fokji, at variods widths, with the 

 Area or Number op Sqdare Feet of Sorface to each Tree, and 



THE NUJIHER of TeeES UPON AN ACRE. 



If for any cause it is deemed preferable to plant in squares, 

 the followinir table will be found useful, and its smaller figures 

 may aid calculations of vegetable field-crops. 



