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formed ; but it is so simple that it may be learned 

 with the utmost ease ; and any person who is quali- 

 fied to manage the most ordinary kitchen garden 

 will be able to superintend the work. The cheapest 

 way of making the pits will be to slump them with 

 common labourers at so much per hundred ; but 

 the putting in of the plants should be always a day 

 job; and executed under the inspection of a gardener, 

 forester, or some other person whose skill and care- 

 fulness can be depended on. 



Those who plant extensively, and have nurseries 

 of their own, as they will always require to have 

 several men in constant employment under a fores- 

 ter, can easily have them trained so as to be capable 

 of planting on any system. The remarks contained 

 in the last paragraph but one, therefore, are only 

 applicable in cases where operations are intended to 

 be carried on, on a comparatively small scale, and to 

 be concluded in a few years. 



Thus have I laid before the reader all the infor- 

 mation I have been able to derive from experience, 

 relative to the planting of every species of trees which 

 are adapted for our Waste Lands, with the exception 

 of the Oak, whose culture is treated of by itself in 

 another part of the work. By proceeding according 



