How To Plant Pecan Trees 
(How Many Trees to the Acre, etc.) 
Two usual questions asked us are how many trees to plant to the acre, and what kind of soil 
in which to plant them. 
On lands of only fair fertility, plant trees every 50 feet, but we generally recommend 60x60. 
If the ground is very rich, plant farther apart, such as 70x70, but for the average, figure on every 
60 feet— 12 trees to the acre. Please refer just below. You can get more trees to the acre by 
the triangle method of planting (14 as against 12). 
As to soils — land that will grow hickory 
or oak trees will grow fine pecans. It has been 
well said that any land that will grow cotton 
will grow pecans. Well drained land is needed 
for best results. Practically any average land 
in the South will grow fine pecans. 
The sooner you set out your pecan trees the 
better will be your prospects for them living, the more vigorous will they grow up, and the 
earlier they will begin to bear. Set out pecan trees as soon as possible after the leaves shed in 
the Fall, in November, December, January, February or March. Even if you cannot set your 
trees early, hook your order now so we may reserve some of our finest trees for you. 
Use a planting board in setting your trees. This is easily made by taking any board or plank 
about six feet long and cutting a V-shaped groove in the center of it. This groove in the 
planting board is made to fit down over the stake you have driven down in the ground where 
the tree is to be planted. Then at each end of the planting board place a small peg. When 
you dig the hole for the tree, all you will have to do is to lay this planting board across the hole 
dug so that each end will be against the pegs and your tree will come right in the groove and be 
exactly in line. If you do not use a planting board it is hard to get the trees in line again after 
the holes are dug, even if lined up exactly right to start with. 
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SQUARE METHOD 
TRIANGLE METHOD 
To plant the square method, take 
an ordinary L-square and place on 
the ground in order to get your 
lines true. Sight and place a stake 
sixty (preferably) feet away on 
each line until you reach the ends 
of the field. Then stake off on par¬ 
allel lines at every sixty feet and 
plant trees at each stake. Planting 
sixty feet apart, you have 12 trees 
to the acre. 
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By planting the triangle method you get more trees to 
the acre, and besides all trees are exactly sixty feet apart 
in ALL directions. To get a true equilateral triangle 
easily, drive a stake in the corner of the field. Then with 
the aid of an L-square find stakes along the outside lines. 
In order to get proper and exact distance inward toward 
the field, get a wire sixty feet long. Attach to stake. Get 
another wire of same length and attach to next stake. 
Let one man make an arc with his wire, and another man 
an arc with his. When the two wires meet, properly taut, 
drive stake for tree. Work from that stake and so on 
until field is covered. 
