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or in boxes made of wood ; but, there must be 

 holes in the bottom of doth, or the plants will 

 die. See paragraphs' 108 and 109. 



22. It is, therefore, of the greatest impor- 

 tance, that the ground be moved to a good depth, 

 and, he who is about to make a garden should 

 remember, that he is about to do that, the effects 

 of which are to be felt /or ages. There is, however, 

 one objection to trenching in certain cases. The 

 soil may not only not be good to the depth of two 

 feet, but it may be bad long before yon come to 

 that depth ; and, in this case, the trenching, in 

 putting the good soil at bottom, might bring a 

 hungry sand, or even a gravel or clay to the top, 

 which must not be done by any means; for, even 

 in the case of trees, they would perish, or become 

 stunted, because their roots would not find their 

 way from the bad soil to the good. In such cases 

 the top soil must, in the trenching, be kept at the 

 top ; and, in order to effect this, your mode of 

 proceeding, in the trenching, must be somewhat 

 different from that described in paragraph 20. 



23. Your first trench must be opened in the 

 manner described in that paragraph ; but you 

 must not then proceed to turn the top of the next 

 two feet into the botto?n of the trench. Let us sup- 

 pose, now, that you have your first trench, two 

 feet wide as before directed, open and clean. 

 This being the case, take a foot deep of the next 

 two feet all the way along, and, for this once, 

 throw it over the open trench to add to the earth 

 that you have already thrown out of that trench. 

 Then you will have the bottom foot of earth left. 

 Dig out this and turn it into the bottom of your 

 open trench, and then the first trench will be half 



