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say,“ W hat care I for symmetry and appearance!— 
“ give me revenue \ yy —I must insist upon it that 
symmetry and regularity contribute to increase of 
revenue. And therefore, when a Planter is about 
so important a work as the laying out a piece of 
Coffee, which in good soil, and well attended to, 
will last for ages—I insist he commits an unpar¬ 
donable negligence, if his work exhibits a parcel of 
unneessary crooks and obliquities ; it being de¬ 
monstrable by mathematical principles, that regular 
figures will contain the greatest quantity, at least 
afford the most favourable distribution of it. 
planting. next come to the business of Planting, a 
process so simple as to require very little explana¬ 
tion. However, as even in the most simple opera¬ 
tions method contributes to facility and dispatch, 
I shall describe the mode by which I have gene¬ 
rally been guided. 
Having procured the quantity of plants requir¬ 
ed, (of which those raised in a nursery in the open 
ground should be preferred to those which promis¬ 
cuously spring up under the trees, being more hardy, 
and less liable to be checked in their growth by the 
heat of the Sun) two persons should be allotted to the 
operation:-—one of whom should be provided with a 
strong hard-wood picquet, about five feet long and 
two inches diameter, pointed at the end ; and, if 
shod with iron, it may perhaps be better ; though 
hard wood pointed, and that point a little scorched 
in the fire, will fully answer the purpose. This the 
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