26 AMERICAN GARDENER, 



and they do harm if they be left. Make the 

 ground very fine and nice all round the edges of 

 the piece intended for the garden. Work it well 

 with a spade and make it very fine, which will 

 demand but very little labour. Then place a 

 tine along-very truly : for, mind, you are planting 

 for generations to come ! Take the spade, put 

 the edge of it against the line ; drive it down 

 eight or ten inches deep ; pull the eye of the 

 spade towards you, and thus you make, all along 

 a little open cut to receive the roots of the plants, 

 which you will then put into the cut, -very ufi- 

 right, and then put the earth against them with 

 your hand, taking care not to plant them deeper 

 in the ground than they stood before you took 

 them up from the nursery. The distance be- 

 tween each plant is twelve inches. When this 

 line is done, plant another line all the way alotig 

 by the side of it, and at six inches from it, in 

 exactly the same manner; but, mind, in this se- 

 cond line, the plants are not to stand ofifiosite the 

 plants in the first line, but opposite the middles 

 of the intervals. When both lines are planted, 

 tread gently between them and also 09 the out- 

 sides of them, and then hoe the ground a little, 

 and leave it nice and neat. 



42. This work should be done in ihejfirst or se- 

 cond week of October, even though the leaves 

 should yet be on the plants. For their roots will 

 strike in this fine month, and the plants will be 

 ready to start off in the spring in a vigorous man- 

 ner. If you cannot do it in the fall, do it the 

 moment the ground is fit in the spring ; because, 

 if you delay it too long, the heat and drought 

 comes, and the plants cannot thrive so well. 



