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ground is wet and if more rain may soon be looked for, are 

 good, better though if cloudy than sunny. 



Where much planting has to be done, of necessity 

 planting must be carried on daily, for, as observed, it nmst all 

 be finished by end of July at latest. 



In case of a sunny break in the weather, stop plant- 

 ing after the second day, for early rain to young transplants 

 is a necessity. 



In making a garden too much care cannot be given to the 

 way seedlings are placed in their homes. 



Just before sending this third edition to press, I saw in the 

 Indian Tea Gazette some details of ' new transplanting and 

 transporting tools,' patented by Mr. Jeben. I hope these will 

 prove a success, for such are much wanted, and if they will 

 do all it is said they can do, a great boon will have been con- 

 ferred by Mr. Jeben on the Tea industry. 



Mr. J. W. Mountjoy, of Pandawbrang, Arracan, writes as follows 

 regarding these tools : 



' The Transplanter has, in working, proved to be a complete 

 success. Almost all the remaining seedlings have been transplanted 

 by the aid of your instrument, without the slightest injury to their 

 roots or check to their growth. The fact is, the young plants do not 

 know that they have been transplanted, and now that sunshine has 

 succeeded the late very heavy rains, new and vigorous growth is 

 " bursting out " from all the seedlings that were transplanted by 

 means of your Transplanter. No manager of a Tea or Coffee planta- 

 tion, who had once seen this instrument at work, would ever again 

 be likely to recur to transplanting by hand, and not a single seedling 

 should die when removed from the nursery and carried to its place 

 of ultimate growth by means of your transporter. Your trans- 

 planting apparatus is better than baskets, and has moreover the 

 great recommendation of being very economical. Your Transplanter 

 will, with moderate care, last for many years, and combines thorough 

 economy with thorough efficiency.' 



I am glad to give the above extract, for I look on the 

 invention, if successful, as a most important one. 



