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hills are in this manner guessed by the eye; and in most instan- 
ces they approach near to lines of four feet one way, and three 
feet the other. The planter always endeavours to time this 
operation so as to tally with the growth of plants, so that he 
may be certain by this means to pitch his crop within season. © 
« The third kind of hoe is the broad or weeding hoe. This 
is made use of during the cultivation of the crop, to keep it 
clean from the weeds. It is wide upon the edge, say from ten 
inches to a foot, or more ; of thinner substance than the hilling 
hoe, not near so deep in the blade, and the eye is formed more 
bent and shelving than the latter, so that it can be set upon a 
more acute angle men the helve: at Sopeieod by oes the 
os TE: } aio ued be iBWIRY 32H) ait 
of the Season for Planting... 
4, és <The tern, season for planting, signifies a shower of rain 
of sufficient quantity to wet the earth to a degree of moisture 
which may render it, safe to draw the young plants from the 
plant bed, and transplant them into the hills which are prepared 
for them in the field, as described under the last head; and 
these seasons generally commence in April, and. terminate with 
what is termed the long season in May ; which (to make use of 
an Irishism) very frequently happens in June ; and is the our 
portunity which the planter finds himself necessitated to seize 
with eagerness for the pitching of his crop; aterm which com- 
prehends the ultimate. opportunity which the spring will afford 
him for planting a quantity.equal to the capacity of the collec- 
tive power of his labourers when applied in cultivation, 
__« By the time which these seasons approach, nature has so 
ordered vegetation, that the weather has generally enabled the 
plants (if duly sheltered from the spring frosts, a circumstance 
to which a planter should. always be attentive in sclecting his 
plant patch) to shoot forward in sufficient strength to bear the 
vicissitude of transplantation. 
