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placed out regularly is far and away the best. 

 In these the nuts are laid out in rows about 

 4 ft. apart and endways about 2 ft. from each 

 other. Sufficient earth is then thrown over 

 them to cover -the nuts and leave a little to 

 spare. In disposing them in this way, there 

 would be 5,445 nuts to the acre, and fifty 

 acres would plant a quarter of a million and so 

 on. This is not too large an area to supervise 



in Nursery Beds 

 Cooly laying-in Nuts. 



properly in one day. In this distribution 

 each individual plant can be carefully watched 

 and developed. All dead-heads can promptly 

 be removed and replaced and new ones set out 

 in their place without loss of time or causing 

 them to show any appreciable difference in size 

 from the others ; a gang of men can be set to 

 work weeding or watering, or resetting all the 

 time. Some such plan, when it can be carried 

 out, certainly appeals to us as being better in 



