. [Fruit culture]. (a) Fig. 5 with a spade it is commonly the case that the man using thespade also sticks the cuttings into the ground, three to thewidth of the spade. As soon as the cuttings are in the groundthe earth should be firmly pressed about them; nothing else inthe planting process is so important as this packing. Whenthe planting is done on a large scale the earth is usually pressedabout the cuttings by a finner, shown in Fig. 6, which isdrawn by horses, but on a small scale the earth is usually. («) 23

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