The operation of plantingBox has ever been considered one in which much practice is needed; that it is a labour of time and inconvenience, even to the experienced labourer, as usually performed, we will not deny; the simple process here recommended saves the one and eases the other to an extent which only needs to be known to be generally practiced.

3688. The usual mode, after forming the trench and inner edge, is to place the strips or tufts of box one by one along the length to be planted, securing the same from time to time by pressing the excavated soil against the roots, the tips being regulated to a line stretched for the purpose. This involves an amount of kneeling and stooping both painful and injurious.

3689. Having provided your box, and prepared it in the usual way ready for planting, it is simply necessary to have a few strips of deal, four, five, or six feet long, say half an inch thick by an inch wide, or common pantile laths cut into lengths will answer the end; some shreds of matting or thin string are also required. as it were, between a clamp, and cannot fail to be even.

3690. With these inexpensive and simple materials you can prepare any number of yards in the potting-shed, house, or other building, by laying one strip of wood on the bench or table, cm which arrange the prepared box, thin or thick, as desired; then place a second strip of deal on the box, and secure the two strips together by tying at each end; thus is the box secured.

3691. Place these lengths along the bed or border, and secure them by pressing the soil to the roots with your spade or rake, which done, cut the ties; thus are the laths released from the box, and lengths in feet planted with as much despatch as inches by the ordinary method, and with an amount of regularity and evenness not attainable by the usual plan, at the same time avoiding the painful, back-aching process of kneeling for hours while planting but a few yards.