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expert of the boys are commonly engaged in planting 

 them, for which purpofe they are better calculated 

 than labourers in general are, efpecially where the foil 

 is loofe, and the plants fmall. The weakeft of the boys 

 anfwer to carry the plants about from place to place, 

 and alfo to drefs and fettle the ground after the planters, 

 to pick off Hones, and to do other ufeful works. This 

 clafs alfo, with an intelligent perfon over them as a cap- 

 tain, are extremely well calculated for bringing up the 

 rere of the planting, by fowing broom, furze, and la- 

 burnum-feeds for flicker. 



In like manner they may be employed in planting 

 out nurferies. Indeed in that fpecies of planting there 

 are fo many ways of performing it, that the weakeft of 

 them may be employed to as ufeful purpofes as the 

 ftrongeft. 



When much planting is to be performed in one fea- 

 fon, which here is commonly the cafe, frnall parties are 

 formed, with an intelligent perfon at the head of each, 

 and efpecially when the feafon's planting lies fcattered 

 and detached ; but, when the work lies connected and 

 compact, the reverfe is the general practice , in order 

 to keep all as much as polfible under the eye of the 

 head planter; a fyftem which, in all cafes, let the 

 work be what it may, fhould be attended to as much 

 as poffible. 



So much for the fpring, and now for the fummer 

 quarter, which naturally points out the nece/Tary works. 



I believe 



