. The California fruits and how to grow them. ^aii.^t A Ten-A ere Orchard in Hexas:ons. 129 into five pieces of equal lengths and split them into stakes of about three-cjuartersinch square, and they will make about one thousand four hundred stakes (the numberdesired), and these are to be set in the exact position in which the trees are to beplanted. Two parallel avenues should run through the field dividing it into three plots ofequal size. This can be done by leaving out one row of trees to form the avenue. Sufficient distance should be left lietween the trees and fence to allow a team t
. The California fruits and how to grow them. ^aii.^t A Ten-A ere Orchard in Hexas:ons. 129 into five pieces of equal lengths and split them into stakes of about three-cjuartersinch square, and they will make about one thousand four hundred stakes (the numberdesired), and these are to be set in the exact position in which the trees are to beplanted. Two parallel avenues should run through the field dividing it into three plots ofequal size. This can be done by leaving out one row of trees to form the avenue. Sufficient distance should be left lietween the trees and fence to allow a team topass along without coming in contact with the trees when full grown. Fruit canthen be collected and placed on conveyances either on the avenues or along the lineof the fence, without carrying by hand a distance of more than one hundred feet fromcenter of plots. * n >•»•««. Diagram for Laying Out Ten Acres in Equilateral Triangles. Attach a white flag to a pole of sufficient length to be seen from the oppositeside of the field, and in a corner put it into the ground at a point nineteen and one-half feet from the fence that runs at right angles with the avenues, and eighteen andone-fourth feet from the fence that runs parallel to the avenues; then cross the ends ofthe proposed avenues to the opposite corner. Place a similar pole at the same dis-tance of nineteen and one-half feet from the one fence and eighteen and one-fourthfeet from the other; and at the other side of the inclosure place a pole at each cor-ner at the same distances from the fence, being careful that they are firmly set in the 9 130 Explicit Directions. ground and in an exactly perpendicular position. Stretch rhe fifteen-foot-seven-inchline in the direction to cross the avenues; place the mark nearest the end against thepole, and drive the stake attached to the line into the ground; have
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