Note 136 — Chapter VIII · GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHINESE MODE OF REARING SILK-WORMS, &c.
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In gardening, the quincunx order is a plantation of trees disposed in a square, consisting of five trees, one at each corner and a fifth in the centre, which order repeated indefinitely, forms a regular grove or wood, viewed by an angle of the square or parallelogram, presents equal or parallel alleys.