General Instructions. 



the trees is out of the question. The cost would be a great 

 deal more than the plantation could ever bring. In two 

 years they nmst boil the pot, or bake the bread of somebody : 

 the temptation would be absolutely irresistible. And yet, 

 the trees must be protected from the croppings and the rub- 

 bings of cattle, sheep and pigs. This is pretty effectually done 

 by a mound of eight feet base and three feet top, and 

 three feet in height; which soon gets covered with grass; 

 on which cattle cannot stand ; upon which sheep and pigs 

 tvill not get, because they see nothing to be gained by it; 

 and, if, tempted by the grass, they do jump up, the situa- 

 tion is too cramped for them to remain there for any other 

 purpose than that of eating the grass, which will, in all pro- 

 bability, have been eaten for them by the larger cattle ; for 

 they, standing on the level ground, can do this with (as 

 the newspaper fellows say of the loan-jobbers) " great ad- 

 vantage to themselves and to the public also." 



60. But, this planting should be done well. The earth, 

 as far as it touches the roots, should be made very Jlne ; and 

 it shouUI be placed about the roots, in the manner which 

 I have minutely described in paragraph 54. There is no 

 difficulty in taking a cinder-sieve to the spot. To sift the 

 earth in about the roots, till they be all covered closely, is 

 attended with very little cost ; and, if a water-butt were 

 necessary to the obtaining of mud, or grout, to dip the 

 roots in, previously to planting, that would not cost much. 

 And, I beg the planter, I do implore him, to bear in mind, 

 that only sixpence, or even threepence, a tree, additional ex- 

 j)ense, may make years of ditlerence, nay, much more than 

 half difference, in the growth of the plantation. 



61. For want of the precautions here mentioned, the 

 planter, at the end of two or three years, sees the heads of 



