The Ash. 



than a cabbage plant is. The work, however, never ought 

 to be done, if you can possibly avoid it, in icet weather; 

 and in the rain by no means whatever. The weather may 

 become very dry before the month of May, but even that is 

 a great deal better than wet weather ; nor is there any 

 danger in the drought, if you take the precautions which 

 I am now about to mention. 



1 20. You begin the work (after you have prepared the 

 ground), by taking up the whole of your plants ; you then 

 sort them into large ones and small ones, for such there 

 will always be in every seed bed ; next you lay them by the 

 heels* in the manner described in paragraph 70. It is 

 desirable, even at this early period, to divide the large 

 from the small; and, perhaps, and certainly in some cases, 

 it may be advisable to divide them into three classes ; be- 

 cause, if you mix them cither in the nursery or in planta- 

 tions, the strong will not only preserve their mastership 

 over the weak, but will go on, as is too much the case in 

 the affairs of mankind, augmenting their power and op- 

 pressions, in an increased proportion ; so that, at the end 

 of five or six years, or, indeed, at the end of two years, one 

 would scarcely believe it possible that these were all plants 

 that were sown in the same beds on one and the same day. 

 If classed properly, they do not injure one another; and 

 therefore I strongly recommend this classification. 



121. The ground being duly prepared and the trees 

 ready, you begin the work thus : you dig the ground, as 

 you proceed, over again. Strain the line along the end or 

 side at which you are beginning ; you make a chop along 

 by the side of the line, and take out, all the way along, a 

 couple of spits of earth, and fling it back over the ground, 

 or wheel it to the end where you are to leave off. When 



