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having extended these with their various inflections, 

 to the hreadth of seven or eight inches, or as far as 

 their fingers can reach, the coverer immediately 

 fixes them down, and secures that space with a little 

 fine mould thrown upon it the reverse way, that is, 

 in the direction of the points of the fibres ; which 

 mould is immediately spread and worked in by the 

 hands of the workmen or handlers, in such a man- 

 ner, as that neither the mould can displace the mi- 

 nutest fibres, nor exceed the thickness of a proper 

 stratum. After which they go through the same 

 process with the next tier, and so on vdth the 

 others, till they exhaust the parcel of roots with 

 which they began. 



" It sometimes happens that masses occur not far 

 from the collar, branching out into small and nume- 

 rous stems of no great length, which it is much more 

 troublesome to deal with. With these the only 

 way is to divide them into tiers, and work them in 

 the vertical instead of the horizontal position. A 

 quantity of the finest and most friable mould must 

 be shaken in among the shortest and least extrica- 

 ble fibres of these masses, so that the whole may 

 have an opportunity of absorbing moisture from the 

 soil." 



Such is Sir Henry Steuart's method of treating 



