THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



The most proper season for the Cedar, the 

 Weymouth Pine, the Spruce, Scotch, and 

 Silver Firs, is from the 20th July to the 

 end of August, taking advantage of w,et or 

 cloudy weather. These will also generally 

 succeed well if planted about the end of 

 April, and the ensuing summer prove moist. 



$dly. MANNER OF PERFORMING THE 

 OPERATION : The plants being prepared 

 as directed in Section II. Chapter III. 

 brought to the ground and soughed in, and 

 the ground being prepared either by the 

 plough and harrow, or by the spade, &c. as 

 directed in Section I. of this Chapter. 



First, the mixture being determined on, 

 let the person in charge of the work distri- 

 bute the plants by laying each on the pit in 

 which it is to be planted, or if the ground 

 is prepared by the plough only, at the dis- 

 tance determined on, as nearly as can be, 

 guessed by the eye ; having a person or 

 persons to carry plants from the sough. By 

 this means, the mixture is more perfectly 

 formed than when each planter (suppos- 

 ing there are several employed) is left tp 



