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low basket sloping. Do this again and again, till two 

 baskets are full, when they will be carried, banghy fashion, 

 to the garden. 



When the first row is finished clear away the loose soil, so 

 that a similar trench to the first shall be formed, and then 

 proceed as above with the second row, and so on. 



No further directions for lifting the seedlings out of the 

 nurseries are required. 



All is ready for their reception in the garden if the direc- 

 tions at pages 58 and 74 have been followed out. The work now 

 to be detailed must be done by careful men well superintended. 



In the soft soil of the lately filled up pit, described at 

 page 58, a hole is made either with the hand or a narrow 

 kodalee (the former, if the soil has not settled much, will 

 suffice), large enough and deep enough to take in the seedling 

 with all the earth attached to it. The seedling is then put in and 

 the soil filled in and round it, which completes the operation. 



The manner, though, in which this is done is of great con- 

 sequence. Four things are all important : (i) That the tap- 

 root shall not be turned up at the end because the hole is 

 too shallow. (2) That any rootlets projecting outside the 

 attached earth shall be laid in the hole, and shall preserve, 

 when the soil is filled in, their lateral direction. (3) That 

 the collar of the plant (the spot where the stem entered the 

 earth in the nursery) shall be, when the pit is filled up, about i^ 

 inch higher than the surface of the surrounding earth. (4) That 

 in filling in the hole the soil is pressed down enough to make it 

 unlikely to sink later, but not enough to ' cake ' the mould. 



The following is the consequence of failure in these four 

 points : 



I. Probably death, in any case very much retarded growth. 

 I have planted some seedlings so purposely, the majority died ; 

 those that lived recovered very slowly, and digging them up 

 later the tap-root was found to have gone down after all by 



