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rows. This secures more warmth and better 

 drainage. 



4. The irregular plan of planting, after the 

 manner of an open natural forest, often 

 produces a fine effect. We have seen this 

 successfully accomplished even upon a small 

 scale ; but it is better adapted to large planta- 

 tions, where winding ways, hills, rocks and 

 valleys aid in diversifying the landscape. 



Trees in Grass Ground. Trees in mow- 

 ing-land should have a circle of six to ten feet 

 in diameter around each, kept in a cultivated 

 state. A skillful ploughman, with a manage- 

 able team and a careful driver, can do this 

 work, two or three times in a season, very ex- 

 peditiously, by going down one side of a row 

 and up the other, putting in shallowly and 

 turning out the plough neatly at the proper 

 places. Twice a year will answer for this 

 work. But have a care how you entrust such, 

 labor to unskillful or careless hands. Such 

 may do the work with a bog-hoe or spade, 

 taking special care not to bruise the roots 

 in the least. 



Some laborers are so rough, that they ought 

 not to be allowed even to look over the fence 



