e planted, and _vice versa_.

When this operation is over, should the holes be intended for
cinnamon roots, or stumps, the latter must be carefully removed with
as much earth as can be carried up with them and placed in the
holes, taking care not to return the earth removed originally in
digging the holes, which are to be filled with the soil scraped from
the surface, which has been previously burnt, exposed, and formed
into manure. Should no rain have fallen after the placing of the
roots in the holes, the stumps should be well covered, and watered
morning and evening, until such time as the sprouts shoot out fresh
buds, which will be in a fortnight or so from the time they were
transplanted, when the watering may be discontinued. In a month the
new shoots will be three or four inches high; this much depends upon
the weather.

If the holes be intended for young plants or seedlings, the plants
must be removed with boles of earth from the nurseries, and placed
in the holes, taking the same care as with the stumps, both in
watering and covering, in the event of its being dry weather. When
the seedlings take root, the coverings should not be removed until
the plants throw out a new pair of leaves from the buds, which is a
sign of their having taken root.

When a plantation is formed of old stumps, all the branches should
be cut down within six inches from the ground; this should be done
with one stroke of a sharp instrument, in order to avoid the
splitting of the stem. From these stumps cinnamon may be cut and
peeled within eighteen months from the time of transplanting. Often
this is done after the lapse of twelve months from the time of
transplanting.

From seedlings one cannot expect to gather a crop before two or
three years from the time the plants were transplanted, when there
will be but one or a single tree, which, when cut down as already
shown, four or six inches to the ground, ought to be covered with
fresh earth gathered from the space between the rows, and formed in
a heap round the plant. The next crop will be three or four times as
much as the first, from the number of sprouts the stem will throw
out, and so on every year, the crop increasing according to the
number of sprouts each stem will throw out yearly from the cuttings.
In the course of seven or eight