a On Hedging. 
may be fresh and pliable, in which condition it will the 
more aptly close about and embrace the roots of the 
plants. As many planters as are to be employed in set- 
ting the plants, having provided themselves each with 
a dibble or setting stick for the purpose, about eight 
inches long, with a short handle naturally formed at a 
proper angle and sharpened to such a convenient point 
as experience will soon direct, a garden line is to be 
stretched one foot within the verge of the raked ground, 
for the first row. 
So many plants as it may be expected the labour- 
ers can put in before they go to eat, being taken out 
of the deposit, their roots trimmed by a careful hand 
to about six or seven inches long, and placed in a tub 
of water near at hand, the planters are to take from 
thence small parcels, containing from twenty-five to 
fifty at a time, successively ; as they are planted these 
are to be held together in the left hand, and one of 
them being placed between the thumb and fore finger 
of the same, its root is to be put into the hole made 
by the dibble and held to a proper depth, the mould is 
then to be closed thereto by a smart insertion of the 
dibble conveying a small portion of soil perpendicular 
to embrace it, another flat stroke is applied by the same 
to fill up the opening and thus with three motions of 
the dibble, judiciously applied, the plants are suc- 
cessively planted and fixed upright in their place, each 
workman being careful to plant just so near the line as 
not to touch it, and also not to double up the roots 
when putting them in which would be extremely in- 
jurious to the future growth of the plants, observing 
always to keep a regular distance in setting them, and 
