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PERMANENT PLANTATIONS. 



and an equal distance between each . tree. Thus, in plant- 

 ing a square of one hundred feet, for example, the trees 

 to be twenty-five feet apart, we commence on one side, 

 laying a line the whole length. On this line we measure 

 off the distances for the trees, and place a stake indicat- 

 ing the point for th*e tree. Thus, in fig. 93, we have 

 five rows of five trees each, making twenty-five in all, 

 and all twenty-five feet apart. This is the simplest, and 

 probably the best for Yerj small orchards. The better 

 plan for large orchards is what is called quincunx (fig. 

 9i), in which the trees of one row are opposite the spaces 



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Pig. 93, sqTiare planting. Fig. 9i, quincunx planting. 



in the next. In this way, although the trees are at equal 

 distances, there is a larger clear area around each tree. 

 In fig. 94, the square form, every tree stands in the comer 

 of a square in the centre of, and equally distant froir 

 /our others. In the quincunx, every tree stands in the 

 angle of a triangle of equal sides, and in the centre of, 

 ani eq^ually distant from six others. Thus, in the latter, 



