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out and piled in small heaps to diy, after whicli they also should be 

 burnt prior to the second hoeino-, when the soil must be well pulver- 

 ized to enable the planter to transplant with greater ease and more 

 securit}'. If the undulations of the land permit, the plow and harrow- 

 might be substituted with advantage for the hoe on this second occa- 

 sion, both as a matter of econom}^ and expedition, but the land must, 

 in the iirst instance, be carefully hoed and the roots extracted, as 

 that could not be done with the plow. After the soil has been pre- 

 pared as above described, a hole one foot deep and nine inches brond. 

 should be dug at each stake, for the reception of the transplant. 



Sowing of the Seed. 

 The seed, immediately on arrival at the factory should be taken 

 out of the bags or boxes in which received, and placed in damp beds 

 six inches deep, which ought to have been carefully prepared before- 

 hand for its reception. The mode of sowing the seed is by deposit- 

 ing a layer broadcast, as close as the seeds will lie, and- sprinkling 

 them with soil to the depth of an inch, to be again succeeded by a 

 layer of seed and an inch of soil, until the bed be filled up, when 

 the surface should be lightly watered and covered with mats, straw 

 or grass, in order to protect the soil from the influence of the sun, 

 which would heat the bed and cause the seed to germinate too quickly, 

 while the object is merely to swell the seed, prior to permanently 

 planting it at the stake, or transferring it to the nurseries. 



ISTURSEKIES. 



The time for forming nurseries is ISTovember, and these should be 

 made on as level and low a site as possible, so as to be near water, 

 care being taken that the soil be good and that it be well turned up 

 to a depth of two feet, thoroughly pulverized, every root and stump 

 extracted and formed into raised beds, five feet in breadth, with the 

 space of two feet between each bed to give a passage for watering 

 the nurseries ; the earth taken therefrom being thrown on the beds, to 

 raise them to a height of six inches to prevent inundation in the 

 event of any heavy fall of rain. The sides of the bed must be har- 

 dened by beating so that they may not be easily' washed away or 

 trodden down. Should the beds be inconveniently long, cross path* 

 might be made at intervals, to allow of a greater facility in watering 

 and tending them. The whole should be fenced round to protect 

 them from cattle or Avild animals and watchmen must be kept up 



