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SECTION III. 



The Manner of Planting ; future Care> Kc. 



1st. MANNER OF PLANTING *. If the 

 soil is sufficiently deep to receive the ball 

 within the level of the adjacent surface, 

 and if the bottom be not tilly, or canker- 

 ing, make a pit sufficiently large, according 

 to the diameter of the ball, that there may be 

 a free space, all round, of ten or twelve 

 inches beyond the extremities of the roots ; 

 keeping the good earth by itself, and laying 

 aside the bad. Let the pit be made so deep, 

 that there may be placed, under the ball 9 

 a few inches of the good earth. But, if the 

 soil be shallow, and if the bottom be tilly and 

 cankering, make the pit no deeper than the 

 surface earth or sward, except so much as to 

 receive a few inches of good mould under 

 the ball, as above. 



* For the season of planting, see Chap. IV. Sect. V. 



