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as sometimes to afford great crops. Sometimes, 

 in low moist grounds, that arc in g; .ws W Bward, 

 the bed* .uc marked out as above, and without 

 digging the ground; placing the \> [s im- 



mediately upon the sward, iben digging tne al- 

 | firei turning up the sward, and placing it 



topsy-turvy upon the bed, so as i^> l>e sward to 

 sward over the seta ; then finishing by applying 

 more earth from the alleys, to cover in the sets, 

 the proper depth of tour or five inches. This, 

 in some counties, is called the lazy-bed method, 

 because the ground is not dug over. 



In the eighth, or Furrnu Planting, which 

 is bv di awing furrows with a plough, and de- 

 positing sets or plants in them, covering in also 

 with the plough : it is sometimes practised for 

 planting potatoe-sets in tields, and has been 

 adopted" in planting young trees for large tracts 

 of forest-tree plantations, where the cheapest 

 and most expeditious method is required ; but 

 this meth k. can be practised only iu a light 

 pliable ground, and is performed thus : a furrow 

 bcinsi draw i, one or two persons are employed 

 in placing iIk -cts or plants iuthe furrow, whilst 

 the plough following immediately with another 

 furrow, turns the earth in upon the roots of 

 the plants. This is not a mode to be much 

 advised. 



In the ninth, or Dibble Planting, which is 

 the most commodious method for most sorts of 

 fibrous-rooted seedling plants, particularly all 

 the herbaceous tribe; also for slips, off-sets, 

 and cuttings both of the herbaceous and shrub- 

 by kinds; likewise for some kinds of seeds and 

 roots, such as broad-beans, potatoe-sets, Jeru- 

 salem artichokes, and horse-radish-sets, with 

 numerous sorts of bulbous roots, &c, it is ex- 

 peditiously performed with a dibble or setting- 

 sticky bv making a narrow hole in the earth tor 

 each plant, inserting one iu each hole always 

 as the work proceeds. 



Having a dibble or setting-stick, it is used by 

 thrusting it into the earth in a perpendicular de- 

 scent, in depth as the particular plants, &c, 

 mav require; directly inserting the plant, seed, 

 or set, as each hole is made, closing it imme- 

 diately by a stroke of the dibble. In setting 

 anv kind of plants, slips, cuttings, Sec, having 

 long shanks or steins, it is proper to make holes 

 a proportionable depth, to admit them a con- 

 siderable way in the ground : for example, cab- 

 bage-plants, savoys, &c, should be planted 

 down to their leaves; ^lips and cuttings should 

 be inserted two parts of three, at least, in the 

 ground ; being particularly careful in dibbling- 

 in all sorts of plants, to close the holes well in 

 part about the roots, by striking the dib- 

 ble slautways iuto the ground, so as to strike 



the mould first firmly up to the root and fibres, 

 at tin- same time bringing it close to the stem. 

 See Dibki. . 



/// tht Unth mode, or Trowel Planting, 

 it is performed with a garden trowel, made- 

 hollow like a scoop, and is useful in transplant* 

 iiig mauv sorts of' young fibrous-rooted plants 

 with balls of earth about their roots, m> as not 

 to feel their removal. 



The trowel is employed both in taking up the 

 plants, and planting them. 



In tht eleventh^ or Planting with Balls of 

 Berth about the Roots, which is the removing 

 a plant with a large ball of earth about its root-, 

 so as bv having its roots firmly attached to the 

 surrounding earth, it still, during the operation, 

 continues its crowing state, without receiving 

 any, or but very little check From us removal : 

 this is often practised more particularly for the 

 more delicate and choicer kinds of exotics, both 

 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ; and occa- 

 sionally for many of the fibrous-rooted, flowery 

 plants, both annuals, perennials, and biennials, 

 even in their advanced growth and flower, 

 state, when particularly wanted to supply any 

 deficient compartments ; though it is not so eli- 

 gible for bulbous-rooted kinds : likewise, when 

 intended to remove any sort of tree or plant out 

 of the proper planting season, as very late in 

 spring, or in summer, it is proper to transplant 

 it with a good ball of earth, to preserve it more 

 certainly in a state of growth. Some trees and 

 shrubs are more difficult to remove with a ball 

 than most kinds of herbaceous fibrous-rooted 

 plants, though many of the tree and shrub kinds 

 having very tibry roots, also readily rise with 

 good balls. 



In transplanting any of the tree and shrub 

 kinds by this method, if they grow in the full 

 ground, the operator must be careful to begin to 

 open a trench with a spade ;it some distance from 

 and round the stem, perhaps a foot, or two or 

 three, according to the size of the tree ar.d ex- 

 pansion of the roots, digging a sort of trench all 

 round, a spade or two wide, or more if large 

 trees, and in depth below all the roots; all the 

 time having great care not to disturb the ball or 

 mass of earth between the stem and trench, but 

 preserve it as entire as possible. When the 

 whole has been detached, the plant should be re- 

 moved into the situation tor which it is intend- 

 ed, with the whole of it< hall about itr. roots. 



When tries or shrubs, with balls to their 

 roots, are intended to be sent to cons 

 distances, thev should he placed singly ■ 

 baskets, in order to preservi the ball; i. 

 a basket for each tree; the baskets to be of m: 

 upright make, in width and depth in proport 



