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apt to be parched. But if they are parched by the 

 opening of one flit, the opening of many feems 

 more likely to increafe, rather than diminifh the 

 evil. 



The moil proper time to perform the operation 

 of flitting-in the plants, is when the furface is in 

 a moift ftate. On all fteeps, the plant mould be 

 placed towards the declivity, that the moifture may 

 fall to its roots ; that is to fay, in planting, the 

 fpadefman mould fland higheft, and the boy low- 

 eft, on the bank ; by which arrangement the plant 

 will be inferted at the lower angle of the flit. 



In cafes where the foil is a fand or gravel, and 

 the furface bare of herbage, two year feedling 

 Scots firs, or plants of that fize, may be planted 

 with the diamond-pointed dibble ; which is in- 

 deed the cheapeft and moft expeditious method 

 of planting, of any which we yet know of. Al- 

 though it may be a little more expenfive, we 

 would recommend, as a better method, however, 

 the chopping and loofening of the foil to a 

 good depth, with a dibble made in the form of 

 a common pickaxe ; by which the work is done 

 quickly, and at the fame time more perfectly. 

 But of this afterwards. 



We think it proper in this place to remark, 

 f. hat the operation ofphnting, in whatever manner 



performed, 



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