PROPAGATION AND CHAP. 



the case j for, a very cheap and simple tool does the 

 business with as much quickness as sowing at random. 



91, Suppose there be a bed of onions to be sown. I 

 make my drills in this way. 1 have what I call a Driller, 

 which is a rake six feet long in the head. This head is 

 made of oak, *2 inches by 2J ; and has teeth in it at eight 

 inches asunder, each tooth being about six inches long, 

 and an inch in diameter at the head, and is pointed a 

 little at the end that meets the ground. This gives nine 

 teeth, there being four inches over at each end of the 

 head. In this head, there is a handle fixed of about six 

 feet long. When my ground is prepared, raked nice and 

 smooth, and cleaned from stones and clods, I begin at 

 the left hand end of the bed, and draw across it nine rows 

 at once. I then proceed, taking care to keep the left hand 

 tooth of the Driller in the right hand drill that has just 

 been made j so that now I make but eight new drills, 

 because (for a guide) the left hand tooth goes this time 

 in the drill, which was before made by the right hand 

 tooth. Thus, at every draw, I make eight drills. And, 

 in this way, a pretty long bed is formed into nice, straight 

 drills, in a very few minutes. The sowing, after this, is 

 done with truth, and the depth of the covering must be 

 alike for all the seeds. If it be parsnips or carrots, which 

 require a wider distance between the rows ; or, cabbage 

 plants, which, as they are to stand only for a while, do 

 not require distances so wide : in these cases, ether 

 Drillers may be made. 



92. In the case of large pieces of ground, a hand 'Driller 

 is not sufficient. Yet, if the land be ploughed, furrows 



