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along against the line. You plant this row as you did the 

 first: thus you go on to the end of the piece; and thus 

 your plants are all in the ground 3 you have dug your 

 ground all over the second time, and you leave a surface 

 untouched by foot, or by any thing to make it hard. 



123. By this mode of proceeding you avoid all the tramp- 

 ling that generally takes place in the performing of this 

 work, and you give to your plants the best possible chance 

 of success. As you will have sorted your j)lants, you will, 

 of course, plant them in assortments; and, therefore, it is 

 necessary to observe, that you may, if you want room, put 

 the smaller sizes at four inches apart in the row, and the 

 rows at fifteen inches, or a foot, apart. This, however, is 

 not worth while, unless you happen to be very much 

 pressed for room. It is to be recollected, however, that, 

 though these plants stand on a very small space in the seed 

 bed, they require room when planted out in the manner 

 above described. Planted in rows, which are at eighteen 

 inches apart, and at six inches from each other in the row, 

 a rod will furnish room for three Inmdred and sixty-three 

 plants, and an acre will furnish room for fifty -eight thou- 

 sand and eighty plants : so that the hundred thousand trees, 

 which, in the seed bed, occupied only ten rods of ground, 

 will now occupy not much short of two acres of ground; 

 that is to say, thirty-two times as much ground as they oc- 

 cupied before. 



124. The plants having been thus safely put into a nur- 

 sery, they remain till they be wanted to go into plantations. 

 Here I liave to refer the reader to the general instructions, 

 contained in the former part of this work, where I have 

 (paragraph 40) treated of the seasons and of the weather 

 for planting; of the age and size of the plants, and of pre- 

 paring their roots for planting (paragraph 48) ; of the 



