Part II.— On the Physiology of Sowing Seeds, 
and Growing Plants for Farming Produce. 
Tue ground being dug, and cleared duly and 
properly for a building, the foundations of the 
building are then laid. If the building intended 
be of a noble and extensive kind, then the laying 
of the foundation is a most important matter, and 
requires the utmost attention. A mistake made 
there cannot be remedied by any future caution 
or care. So, when ground has been thoroughly 
drained, and aeration secured to the utmost extent, 
preparation has only been thereby made for the 
laying of the foundation of the structure of the 
future plant—for sowing the seed which contains 
the germ of all. It would not do to build a house 
at random. No more will it do to sow seed at 
random. 
Scattering seeds indiscriminately over the sur- 
face of the ground previously prepared for their 
reception, is no more sowing them than tumbling 
