APPENDIX I. 



The mode of returning tillage land to permanent pasture, 

 called transplanting, was invented by Mr. Whitworth, of 

 Acre House, Lincolnshire ; and Mr. John Blomfield, of 

 VVarham, Norfolk, first practised it to any extent, having, 

 in 1812, or the following year, converted thirty-two acres of 

 tillage-land by this mode. 



In 1817, Mr. Blaikie published a full account of the 

 process, with details of the merits of the new practice ; from 

 which work, the information communicated by Mr. Whit- 

 worth, by correspondents who have tried this new mode, 

 and from my own personal observations, the following state- 

 ments and remarks are furnished. 



In laying down land to permanent pasture by this mode, 

 it is essential that the soil should be free of the seeds and 

 roots of weeds, and made perfectly clean by a clear out 

 summer fallow. The autumn is the best season for 

 transplanting turf, and the sooner the work is begun at this 

 season the better, provided the autumnal rains have suffi- 

 ciently moistened the turf to fit it for paring off clear. By 

 transplanting in autumn, therootsof the grasses get established 

 before the commencement of warm weather in the spring, 

 and stored with sap to supply a more luxuriant ciop of grass 

 than when the turf is delayed planting until February and 

 March. On a farm of the Marquis of Tavistock, at 

 Oakley, I witnessed the important effects of particular 

 seasons in transplanting turf. One part of the field had 

 been transplanted in the autumn, and another portion at 

 different periods of the spring. The superiority of the 



