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low basket sloping. Do this again and again, till two 

 baskets are full, when they will be carried, banghy fashion, 

 to the garden. 



When the first row is finished clear away the loose soil, 

 so that a similar trench to the first shall be formed, and 

 then proceed as above with the second row, and so on. 



No further directions for lifting the seedlings out of the 

 nurseries are required. 



All is ready for their reception in the garden if the direc- 

 tions at pages 59 and 75 have been followed out. The work 

 now to be detailed must be done by careful men well 

 superintended. 



In the soft soil of the lately filled up pit, described at 

 page 59, a hole is made either with the hand or a narrow 

 kodalee (the former, if the soil has not settled much, will 

 suffice), large enough and deep enough to take in the seed- 

 ling with all the earth attached to it. The seedling is then 

 put in and the. soil filled in and round it, which completes 

 the operation. 



The manner, though, in which this is done is of great 

 consequence. Four things are all important : (i) That 

 the tap-root shall not be turned up at the end because the 

 hole is too shallow. (2) That any rootlets projecting outside 

 the attached earth shall be laid in the hole, and shall pre- 

 serve, when the soil is filled in, their lateral direction. 

 (3) That the collar of the plant (the spot where the stem 

 entered the earth in the nursery) shall be, when the pit is 

 filled up, about ij inch higher than the surface of the sur- 

 rounding earth. (4) That in filling in the hole the soil is 

 pressed down enough to make it unlikely to sink later, but 

 not enough to "cake" the mould. 



The following is the consequence of failure in these four 

 points : 



i. Probably death, in any case very much retarded 



