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planters are thus to proceed until the length of the line 
allotted for each is finished through the whole, the line 
is then to be cautiously removed so as not to disturb 
the plants, and with the corn-stalks carried forward and 
extended betwixt the second and third poles. Some of 
the labourers may now continue to plant, while others 
are employed in filling up that portion of the trench 
which hath already been planted. It is most convenient 
for two labourers to do this with spades, throwing in 
the mould thereby to both sides of the hedge at once, so 
that the plants may not be displaced by a pressure on 
one side while the other is unsupported; a little prac- 
tice will soon render the operation familiarto the work- 
men, and they will understand it better in a quarter of 
an hour’s acquaintance, than by all that Iam able to say 
to simplify it. 
Each of the different assortments of plants are to be 
set contiguous without mixture in the hedge. When 
the ground .is all of equal fertility through the whole 
extent of the course, it is best to begin with the largest 
plants; when these are done, let the next in size suc- 
ceed them, and so on to the lesser sizes, if more than 
one or two of those in hand should be required; but if 
the soil is not of equal strength in different parts let 
the strongest and best plants be set on the weakest part 
of the ground. It is necessary here to observe, that no 
are under restraint, there will be no occasion to set the plants 
so close, from six to eight inches will generally answer, and 
one foot will be as wide as in the best of soils, will be xe- 
quisite. 
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