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you have made the trench clear all along by the side of the 

 line, to the depth necessary to receive your plants, you 

 bring the plants, with their roots pruned, in the manner 

 directed in paragraph 72, and place them along, with 

 your hand, just to touch the line, and with the bottom of 

 their roots resting upon the earth at the bottom of the 

 trench, in such way that each plant may stand not quite so 

 much sunk into the ground, as it was when it stood in the 

 seed bed. You will see precisely how much of it was 

 under ground before; and you must take great care not to 

 put more of it under ground at any rate ; and the best way 

 is not to put so much of it under ground by an inch iu 

 depth. 



122. When you have fixed a row of plants, at about six 

 inches apart, just so as to touch the line, and have crum- 

 bled the earth well in about their roots, put some earth 

 lightly up to them with the spade, and tread that earth up 

 against them, or rather upon their roots, with your foot. 

 Press it hard and firm about the roots of the plants. When 

 you have done this, they will stand with the level ground 

 behind them, and with a trench before them. You go on 

 now as if you were continuing to dig the piece of ground 

 again. You begin with your first line of spits to fill up 

 that part of the trench along which the young trees are 

 placed. The rows of trees ought to be about eighteen 

 inches asunder; therefore, when you have dug on, for the 

 distance of two feet, from the row of trees just planted, and 

 have levelled the ground nicely, you remove the line, and 

 place it across your piece of ground eighteen inches from the 

 place where it stood before. This will leave six inches wide 

 of dug ground and your trench ; but you take your spade, 

 and chop down along close to the line, drawing this six 

 inches of ground back towards your trench. This gives 

 you the place for another row of Plants, to be placed 



