April] PLANTING SANDY MOORS, &C. 35! 



ftates on which they are ; the lucrative profpe&s 

 which they hold forth to rifing families ; and the 

 immenfe advantages which they fecure by making 

 timber plenty in the country, it is aftoniming that 

 more is not dune in that way. By no other means, 

 which we know of, can young trees be fo quickly 

 planted in the foreft, as by the diamond-pointed 

 dibble. The plate of this inftrument is made of 

 good fteel, and is four inches and a half broad 

 where the iron handle is welded to it ; each of 

 the other two fides of the triangle is five inches 

 long ; the thicknefs of the plate is one fifth part 

 of an inch, made thinner from the middle to the ' 

 fides, till the edges become fharp. The length 

 of the iron handle is feven inches, and fo ilrong 

 as not to bend in working with it, which will re- 

 quire fix eighths of an inch fquare. The iron 

 handle is furpifhed with a turned hilt, like the 

 handle of a large gimlet, both in its form and 

 manner of being fixed on it. * 



The planter is furnifhed with a planting-bag, 

 tied round his waift, in which -lie carries the 

 plants. A ftroke is given with the dibble, a little 

 aflant, the point lying inwards ; the handle of the 

 dibble is then drawn towards the perfon, while 

 its plate remains fteady in the ground : By this 

 means a vacuity is formed between the back of 

 the dibble and the ground ; into which the plant- 



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 * Plate It I. fig. L 



