84 MANNER OF PROCEEDING 



each district, tlie number and kinds of trees re- 

 quired for it. 



The number and kinds of trees having been 

 laid down in their respective pkaces, the superin- 

 tendent of operations will next bring forward the 

 number of men that may be thought requisite 

 for the work to be done ; and each man or planter 

 ought to provide himself with a boy for the pur- 

 pose of handing the young trees, and each boy 

 should be provided with an apron for hokhng his 

 trees when taken out of the ground, as well as to 

 keep their roots safe against any cutting winds 

 that may prevail. These matters being all pro- 

 perly arranged, the superintendent will, when his 

 men are all collecting in the morning, strive to be 

 the first man upon the ground, and arrange in his 

 own mind quietly as to what sort of a day it is 

 likely to be ; and if it have the appearance of 

 being a fine one, put the men to plant upon the 

 most exposed parts of the ground, and if otherwise, 

 upon the most sheltered parts. Although the day 

 should prove wet, if the men have all collected, and 

 are willing to work, let them do so, but only as long 

 as the ground is not saturated witli rain, which can at 

 once be known when the young trees will not firm 

 in tlie ground ; as soon as the superintendent sees 

 that the men cannot, with the usual beating, firm 

 the trees in the ground, let him give orders to 

 drop work at once : to persevere in such a state of 



