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Stem. These beds may have alleys about the same 

 width as before, with this difference, that the beds 

 should be two inches lower than the alleys, which 

 must be well trodden, to keep the earth from 

 crumbling down into the beds. First level all your 

 ground, then stretch the line from one end of the 

 bed to the other, according to the size of the 

 ground, and with your spade cut off the edging in 

 the inside of the bed, throwing the mould towards 

 the middle of it : then remov?^ the line to the other 

 side of the bed, which ought to be from four to six 

 feet wide, and cut the other edge, throwing the 

 mould into the bed as before. When this is done, 

 throw up some of the mould on the top of the alley, 

 to make it about two inches higher than the bed, 

 and tread the alley well down. Then begin to 

 plant your young trees in rows across the bed, a foot 

 or fifteen inches apart, and about six inches in the 

 row, digging the ground, and planting as you pro- 

 ceed, also beating up the edges of the alleys with 

 the back of your spade, to keep the mould from 

 tumbling down into the bed. Proceed thus till 

 you have finished the bed, and so on till you have 

 planted the whole. If it be dry weather each bed 

 should be watered as you finish planting it, which 

 being made a little lower than the alleys will retain 

 the water that you throw on it, and will prevent 

 the rain from running ofl'; if the dry weather con- 

 tinue long, mulch the beds as before directed. 

 Observe to keep them free from weeds, watering 



