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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Quincunx

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A pattern of five objects placed at the corner and centre of a square. The Numerology of planting Trees in such repeated patterns was a Maggot of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), who discussed it in The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincunciall, Lozenge or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients (1658). [DRL]



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