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planters are thus to proceed until the length of the line 

 allotted for each is finished through the whole, the line 

 is then to be cautiously removed so as not to disturb 

 the plants, and with the corn-stalks carried forward and 

 extended betwixt the second and third poles. Some of 

 the labourers may now continue to plant, while others 

 are employed in filling up that portion of the trench 

 which hath already been planted. It is most convenient 

 for two labourers to do this with spades, throwing in 

 the mould thereby to both sides of the hedge at once, so 

 that the plants may not be displaced by a pressure on 

 one side while the other is unsupported; a little prac- 

 tice will soon render the operation familiar to the work- 

 men, and they will understand it better in a quarter of 

 an hour's acquaintance, than by all that I am able to say 

 to simplify it. 



Each of the different assortments of plants are to be 

 set contiguous without mixture in the hedge. When 

 the ground is all of equal fertility through the whole 

 extent of the course, it is best to begin with the largest 

 plants; when these are done, let the next in size suc- 

 ceed them, and so on to the lesser sizes, if more than 

 one or two of those in hand should be required; but if 

 the soil is not of equal strength in different parts let 

 the strongest and best plants be set on the weakest part 

 of the ground. It is necessary here to observe, that no 



are under restraint, there will be no occasion to set the plants 

 so close, from six to eight inches wiU generally answer, and 

 one foot will be as wi(ie as in the best of soils, will be re- 

 quisite. 



