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grow. I have assisted in planting, according to this 

 plan, upwards of three thousand acres in Aherdeen- 

 shire ; and, in all that extent, I know not of a single 

 instance of failure, where the plants were in a 

 healthy state when put into the ground, of the pro- 

 per age and varieties, and suitable for the soil." 



" To plant well and expeditiously in this way, 

 requires considerable dexterity on the part of the 

 workman ; and where raw hands are employed, it 

 will be necessary to have some person to teach and 

 superintend them." 



Mr Cruickshank disposes of the old cross system 

 of slit planting by the spade, with very little cere- 

 mony ; as it would almost seem, without being able 

 to appreciate its merits. It is, in fact, a totally dif- 

 ferent mode of planting from that by the flat dib- 

 ble-planter or planting-iron, and is well adapted for 

 all plants with horizontal roots, and which have stood 

 from one to three years in the nursery line. By 

 first striking the spade in perpendicularly, as deep 

 as the turf-soil, by again striking it in at right 

 angles to the end of the first cut, in the form of 

 a T, and bending back the spade, the turf-soil 

 is raised from a horizontal bed, and the first cut 

 opened so wide as to admit the root, which insert- 



