THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



boy places the plant perfectly upright, an 

 inch deeper than when it stood in the nur- 

 sery, holds it firm in that position. He 

 irindks in the mould gently. The boy gently 

 moves the plant, not from side to side, but 

 upwards and downwards, until the fibres are 

 covered. The man then fills in all the 

 mould, and proceeds to chop and poach 

 the next pit, leaving the boy to set the plant 

 upright, and tread the mould about it, which 

 in stiff wet soil he does lightly, but in sandy 

 or gravelly soil until the surface no longer 

 bear the impression of his foot. He has 

 now got the pit ready for another plant : the 

 boy is also ready with it in his hand. And so 

 forth. 



Thus the business proceeds mechanically: 

 neither is the attention of the one or the 

 other diverted from the important point of 

 performing his'part well, by studying the less 

 important one of mixing ; a matter more ne- 

 cessarily dependant on taste, and which can- 

 not so much affect the general welfare of the 

 plantation. 



In all cases, where the land has been pre- 

 pared, whether by pitting, ploughing and 



