PLANTING AND MANURING 21 



ground to get the drill straight. This will require, of 

 course, two men, who, with a spade apiece, will take 

 out the soil to a uniform depth. The best size is 

 twelve inches long and twelve inches at the base, gradu- 

 ating as shown in the figure. The advantage of this 

 long-handled spade is that the sides of the drills 

 are as deep as the middle, which result a hoe will 

 not easily accomplish ; but a greater advantage is, 

 that after the first drill is taken out and the 

 second one commenced, the soil from this 

 second will exactly cover up the first, and the 

 third will cover up the second, and so on 

 till all is finished. I had never seen this 

 tool till I came to Cornwall. It is the 

 Cornishman's one tool he uses it as a 

 spade, a hoe, and a fork (for he takes 

 up his potatoes with it). With it he sets 

 his broccoli and cabbages, and many other 

 things - besides ; in fact he scarcely 

 wants a tool but this to do every kind 

 of work, and a tool-house in a Cornish 

 market-garden contains very little 

 else. 



Following the men with 

 the drills, a man and a boy 

 should put the plants in the 



rows. Whether the plants in ^ CORNISH SPADE 



the rows are to be one foot, 

 one foot and a half, or two feet apart, they should 

 be put at their correct distances, whichever be selected. 

 The boy, carrying a basket full of plants, should 

 drop a plant at the right place, and the man should 

 evenly spread the roots out. Could a reliable boy 

 be found to do this, he would be better than a man, 

 for the boy can stoop more easily, and so could handle 

 the roots better. Either before or after the roots 



