ggg IMPROVED ACORN DIBBLE. 



diciously planted, pay the proprietor much more than the 

 rent it could be let for to a farmer. It would, therefore, give 

 me great pleasure to see in the Society's volumes more com- 

 munications from successful planters. I trust there are nu- 

 merous persons of this description, who wantonly to be re- 

 minded, how greatly they might benefit individuals, as well 

 as their country, by publishing or communicating to you 

 such well ascertained facts of their success as planters, as 

 they may be in possession of; and in order to direct their at- 

 tention to the nature of the information that is chiefly wanted, 

 I beg leave to refer them to pages 86 and 81 of the Society's 

 27th volume*, wherein numerous particulars respecting the 

 planting, management, and produce of woods, are enume- 

 rated. I am, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 

 No. 99, High Holborn, CHARLES WAISTELL. 



June 12, 1811. 



Reference to the Engravings and Section of Mr. WaistelTs 

 Improvement of the Dibble Jor Planting Acorns. Plate 

 Vlhfigs.tl, 3 and A. 



a represents the handle of the dibble, which dibble is a 



The dibble de- ro< ^ t of an inch in diameter, movable in the tube of a stave, 



scribed. which stave is externally about two inches diameter ; b a tin 



, or metal tube fixed on the exterior part of the stave, and of 



the same bore or aperture as the tube of the stave. When 



a hole is made in the earth by the point of the dibble d, the 



Method of acorn is dropped down the metal tube, and on drawing up 



»«ngit, the dibble by its handle to the height of the letter e, the 



acorn c passes through a large opening into the dibble tube, 



and thence falls into the hole made by the point of the dibble 



in the earth ; when by moving backwards and forwards the 



cross handles gg, fixed on the top of the hollow stave, the 



soil surrounding the hole in the earth is loosened by the iron 



wings//", and deposited on the acorn. Fig. 4, h, shows a 



section of the iron wings ff belonging to the bottom of the 



hollow stave. 



Supposing that you wish to plant an acorn in the middle 

 t*f any bush, you are to press the instrument through it into 



* See Journal, vol. XXVII, p. 3O7. 



the 



