MAKING A GARDEN. 73 



posing you are going to plant in both ways, from nurseries 

 and in situ, construct the nurseries as advised under that head, 

 page 61, and also cut the jungle on the intended garden site. 



There is not much to say about cutting jungle. Cut all 

 the brushwood first near the ground, and the big trees later, 

 so that when they fall they may lie on the under wood. In 

 the portion you intend to plant at stake you will not have 

 time to cut down the big trees, and had better simply 'ring ' 

 them. If this is properly done, that is, if the ring is broad 

 enough and deep enough (less than I foot broad and 5 

 inches deep for large trees is not safe), they will certainly die 

 in a twelvemonth, and will not give objectionable shade 

 more than half that time. In the part to be planted ' at stake ' 

 you must burn all the cut jungle by the end of October, and 

 it will be well, if you have labour enough, to send men up the 

 big trees to cut off the branches beforehand, so that they will 

 more or less burn with the rest. Doing this, and piling up 

 the underwood to be burnt round the base of the big trees, 

 will cause earlier death, and diminish the objectionable 

 shade. 



Having burnt the jungle, that is, as much as will burn, 

 and carried off the rest from the parts to be planted at stake, 

 dig out all the small roots, and that done, dig the whole 

 some 4 or 5 inches deep. Then stake it off with small bamboo 

 stakes 1 8 inches long, showing where the tea trees are to be 

 (see page 71 as to the best distances ), and then make your 

 holes and plant your seed at each stake as directed at page 58. 



See the way it is recommended to stake land as regards 

 its lay at pages 44 and 45. 



You will probably not have the ground ready before the 

 end of November, (do not attempt more than you can do to 

 that date), and then take care and keep the seed, as directed 

 at. page 54, until it is sown. 



For the part to be planted from nurseries the following June 

 you have plenty of time. Nowhere have I, or anyone, seen 



