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At Midfummer, (if the weather be rainy, fo much 
the better; if not, without long waiting, provided, as 
before direéted, the foil has preparatorily been re- 
duced and made fine) let the plants be drawn from 
the feed-bed, and tied in bundles of about the fize 
of a peck meafure, each with feven or eight unbro- 
ken wheaten ftraws, prévioufly a little moiftered 
with water. A tub of water ftanding by for the 
purpofe, let the root-end of thefe bundles be dipped 
therein, and then placed, with their leaves down- 
ward, clofely ina cart or waggon; and which being 
filled with thefe bundles, root to root and leaf to 
leaf, may be drawn to the field with, -thus con- 
duéted, immenfe numbers of plants. Being there 
arrived, and women and children employed for the 
purpofe, let each take a bundle on the left arm, and 
breaking the {traw-band, drop the plants fingly along 
the tops of the ridges, at about the diftance of two 
. feet from each other, while dibblers, either men or 
women, one to a ridge, follow after, and with the 
common dibble or fetting-pin, plunge them up to 
the fetting on of their leaves, and clofe them firm in 
the mould. Here the mafter, or fuperintendant, 
walking behind, muft be attentive to the point of 
the mould being well clofed to the roots in every 
particular row; or fome of the dibblers, in view of 
keeping pace with the others, will eafe themfelves 
in this cafe, and move on without paying. due re- 
gard toit. It is performed by a flroke or two with 
the 
