v.] PLANTING. 



and not a very exposed aspect, for the purpose, I 

 shall, if sharp frosts threaten, after the middle of 

 April, about which time the plants will all be 

 fairly up, give a little covering with hoops and 

 mats, or, which is just as good, short stumps to 

 lay hurdles upon 5 for the most trifling thing in 

 the world will intercept the mischievous power 

 of the frost. By the middle of May, these plants 

 will be five or six inches high; and they will 

 not have received any injury from their crowded 

 situation. 



74. The ground may now be ploughed, and 

 the plants put in with the dibble without the 

 drawing of any drill at all. The furrow mark at 

 the top of the land will be sufficient for the 

 planter; and his guide as to the distance from 

 plant to plant will be the painted stick as in the 

 former instance. But, perhaps, the quicker way 

 in this case would be, and indeed 1 know that it 

 would, for the planter to be preceded by another 

 person, who should go on with the plants and 

 the stick, and lay a plant down ready for him on 

 every spot on which it was to stand. This work 

 should be done in dry weather if possible, and 

 should /bZ/ozf; closely upon the heels of the plough. 

 This is a thing prodigiously advantageous to the 

 plants; for, a fermentation takes place in the 

 earth at every moving, and here this fermentation 



