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Directions for planting the Beds. 



eeed to the business of planting before the 

 roots become dry, in the following manner : 

 The ground being evenly dug, six inches from 

 the end of the bed where a trench was first 

 formed, with a straight staiTor ruler three feet 

 in length, and marked into four equal divi- 

 sions one foot apart, lay such ruler exactly 

 across at each end, reaching within about 

 three inches of the side of the bed, gently 

 pressing it upon the fresh dug earth to form 

 a line for the reception of the first rows of 

 plants ; when, with the finger opposite 

 each end, and at the two divisions in the 

 middle of the ruler, mark on the sidfe toward 

 you the equal distances to receive four 

 plants in such first line across ; then with 

 either hand form holes by drawing the soil 

 towards you, each sufficiently large to re- 

 ceive a plant with its entire root, and re- 

 turn the soil to make even the surface about 

 the plants. The distances designed for these 

 lines across the bed throughout being one 



