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Regularly spaced tree dots marking cultivated planting.
Also known as: Plantation symbol, Fruit trees marking
Trees drawn in a regular grid mark an orchard or plantation, where scattered trees mark woodland. The regularity of the spacing is the whole distinction, and it survives even where the individual tree symbols differ between countries.
Marks planted trees in regular rows, distinguishing an orchard or plantation from natural woodland.
Contexts: Maps
Carries its meaning in the regularity of the spacing rather than in the tree symbol itself, which is why the convention transfers between national series that draw trees differently.
Contexts: Maps
Small tree shapes or dots arranged in an even grid of rows and columns over a bounded area.