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The method of ufing it is, to hold the long 

 handle with the left hand, and the fhort handle 

 with the right drawn up -, put the inftrument over 

 the plant that is to be taken up, and with your foot 

 force it into the ground; then give it a twift 

 round, and by drawing it gently up, the earth will 

 adhere to the roots of the plant in a iblid body ; 

 then with another inftrument of the fame fize, take 

 the earth out where the plant is to be put, and 

 bringing the inftrument with the plant in it, put it 

 into the hole which has been made by the other; 

 then keep your right hand fteady, and draw up 

 your left, and the earth and plant will be left in the 

 hole with the roots undifturbed.* 



When turnips are to be tranfplantcd in a field, 

 there are two men employed with each an inftru- 

 ment, one man taking up a plant, while the other 

 fills his inftrument with earth only, thereby making 

 room for depofiting the plant; fo that the hole 

 which is made by taking up the plant, is filled with 

 the earth taken out where the plant is to be put ; 

 which having depofited, he takes up a plant, and 

 returns to the place he firft let out from, the firft 



• This inftrument, which may be had at the ibciety's rooms, is 

 well adapted for garden ufes, and particularly for gentlemen who 

 would like the amufement of tranfplanting (hull roots of any kind, 

 by an eafy, clean, and expeditious method. 



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