ILLUSTRATIONS. 



FIG. PAGE 



1. Mound-planting . . . . . .51 



2. Pruning-shears . . . . . 55 



3. Cross-section of a drill-board to make drills 7 in. apart . 57 



4. Cross-section of a seed-.distributor . . . .58 



5. The Sowing-horn ...... 58 



6. Acorn-dibbler ...... 58 



7. Notched Seedling-pricker . . . . .59 



8. British method of notching . . fc 66 



9. Cramping of roots after notching . . . .66 



10. The iron-shod Dibble for vertical notching . .67 



11. S-conical Spade ...... 68 



12. Pitting with Cylindrical or Semicircular Spades, and plants 



with balls of earth . . . . .69 



13. Method of Mound-planting . . . .70 



14. Ordinary Mound-planting with naked plants . . 70 



15. Combination of Pitting and Mound-planting with naked 



plants ....... 70 



16. Combination of Pitting and Mound -planting with ball 



plants ....... 70 



17. Combination of Notching and Mound-planting with naked 



plants . . . . . 70 



18. Planting in lines, each planter, 2, 3, 4, taking his line 



from the foreman, 1 . . . . .71 



19. The Scribe ....... 77 



20. Good and bad methods of cutting coppice . . .81 



