74 CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF TEA. 



posing you are going to plant in both ways, from nurseries 

 and in situ, construct the nurseries as advised under that head, 

 page 62, and also cut the jungle on the intended garden site. 



There is not much to say about cutting jungle. Cut all 

 the brushwood first near the ground, and the big trees later, 

 so that when they fall they may lie on the underwood. In 

 the portion you intend to plant at stake you will not have 

 time to cut down the big trees, and had better simply " ring " 

 them. If this is properly done, that is, if the ring is broad 

 enough and deep enough (less than one foot broad and five 

 inches deep for large trees is not safe), they will certainly 

 die in a twelvemonth, and will not give objectionable shade 

 more than half that time. In the part to be planted " at 

 stake" you must burn all the cut jungle by the end of October, 

 and it will be well, if you have labour enough, to send men 

 up the big trees to cut off the branches beforehand, so that 

 they will more or less burn with the rest. Doing this, and 

 piling up the underwood to be burnt round the base of the 

 big trees, will cause earlier death, and diminish the objec- 

 tionable shade. 



Having burnt the jungle, that is, as much as will burn, 

 and carried off the rest from the parts to be planted at stake, 

 dig out all the small roots, and that done, dig the whole 

 some 4 or 5 inches deep. Then stake it off with small bamboo 

 stakes 18 inches long, showing where the Tea trees are to be 

 (see page 72 as to the best distances), and then make your 

 holes and plant your seed at each stake as directed at page 59. 



See the way it is recommended to stake land as regards 

 its lay at pages 45 and 46. 



You will probably not have the ground ready before the 

 end of November (do not attempt more than you can do to 

 that date), and then take care and keep the seed, as directed 

 at page 55, until it is sown. 



For the part to be planted from nurseries the following 

 June you have plenty of time. Nowhere have I, or anyone, 



