96 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



cessary labour, which, by the progress of the 

 plants, will be amply repaid. 



Indeed, as I have already said, it were 

 better to trench the ground in all cases. 

 But in extensive designs the undertaking is 

 vast and expensive. And since, I again re- 

 peat it, it were to be wished for the good 

 of posterity, that six acres rather than one 

 were planted, of land fit for no other pur- 

 pose, or which in no other way could be 

 so advantageously employed ; let it suffice, 

 that by properly following the above modes 

 of preparation, we commit the plants to the 

 soil, and bestow part of the expence and la- 

 bour which might be required in. trenching 

 or digging, on their future culture. 



And in this we shall excel many, who 

 bestow much money and labour on plant- 

 ing, without giving themselves any con- 

 cern about the future welfare of the plants, 

 which, instead of cherishing, they abandon 

 to their fate ; not even, perhaps, defending 

 them from the ravages of cattle. 



