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days of June, is worth two planted in July, and after the 

 latter month it is generally a case of seedlings and labour 

 lost. 



Days with heavy rain are not good to plant in. Those 

 with showers or light drizzling rain are best. When there 

 is very heavy rain the soil " cakes" much. Fine days, if 

 the ground is wet, and if more rain may soon be looked for, 

 are good, better though if cloudy than sunny. 



Where much planting has to be done, of necessity plant- 

 ing must be carried on daily, for, as observed, it must all be 

 finished by end of July at latest. 



In case of a sunny break in the weather, stop planting 

 after the second day, for early rain to young transplants is 

 a necessity. 



In making a garden too much care cannot be given to 

 the way seedlings are placed in their homes. 



Just before sending the third edition to press, I saw in 

 the Indian Tea Gazette some details of " new transplanting 

 and transporting tools," patented by Mr. Jeben. I hope 

 these will prove a success, for such are much wanted, and 

 if they will do all it is said they can do, a great boon will 

 have been conferred by Mr. Jeben on the Tea industry. 



Mr. J. W. Mountjoy, of Pandawbrang, Arracan, writes as 

 follows regarding these tools : 



" The Transplanter has, in working, proved to be a complete 

 success. Almost all the remaining seedlings have been transplanted 

 by the aid of your instrument, without the slightest injury to their roots 

 or check to their growth. The fact is, the young plants do not know 

 that they have been transplanted, and now that sunshine has suc- 

 ceeded the late very heavy rains, new and vigorous growth is * bursting 

 out ' from all the seedlings that were transplanted by means of your 

 Transplanter. No manager of a Tea or Coffee plantation, who had 

 once seen this instrument at work, would ever again be likely to recur 

 to transplanting by hand, and not a single seedling should die when 

 removed from the nursery and carried to its place of ultimate growth 



