On Hedging, 



may be fresh and pliable, in which condition it will the 

 more aptly close about and embrace the roots of the 

 plants. As many planters as are to be employed in set- 

 ting the plants, having provided themselves each with 

 a dibble or setting stick for the purpose, about eight 

 inches long, with a short handle naturally formed at a 

 proper angle and sharpened to such a convenient point 

 as experience will soon direct, a garden line is to be 

 stretched one foot within the verge of the raked ground, 

 for the first row. 



So many plants as it may be expected the labour- 

 ers can put in before they go to eat, being taken out 

 of the deposit, their roots trimmed by a careful hand 

 to about six or seven inches long, and placed in a tub 

 of water near at hand, the planters are to take from 

 thence small parcels, containing from twenty-five to 

 fifty at a time, successively ; as they are planted these 

 are to be held together in the left hand, and one of 

 them being placed between the thumb and fore finger 

 of the same, its root is to be put into the hole made 

 by the dibble and held to a proper depth, the mould is 

 then to be closed thereto by a smart insertion of the 

 dibble conveying a small portion of soil perpendicular 

 to embrace it, another flat stroke is applied by the same 

 to fill up the opening and thus with three motions of 

 the dibble, judiciously applied, the plants are suc- 

 cessively planted and fixed upright in their place, each 

 workman being careful to plant just so near the line as 

 not to touch it, and also not to double up the roots 

 when putting them in which would be extremely in- 

 jurious to the future growth of the plants, observing 

 always to keep a regular distance in setting them, and 



