PLANTING WITH HOE OR SPADE. 



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The advantages of tlie instrument are that the plant can be 

 held in a vertical position, and that the planter has both 

 hands free to operate with. 



During the operation of planting, manure can be added. 

 Biermans adds turf ashes prepared as shown on page 197. 

 The method of planting is indicated in Fig. 61. The planting 

 hole having been made with the spiral spade (Fig. 38 on 



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page 166), a quantity of turf ashes is pressed against one side 

 (at a), then the plant is placed in the hole, a second handful of 

 turf ashes pressed against it (at h), then the better part of the 

 excavated earth is tilled in and placed at c, and the rest of the 

 hole, if any space should be left, tilled up with the less good 

 earth. Finally the earth is pressed together by placing the 

 foot at d. 



Vdlue (if Method. -~lt is simple and can be applied to any 



