MODE OF [Chap. 



comes to the aid of the plant, which has a root 

 ready formed to he operated upon, and which 

 strikes off immediately. 



75. Do not he afraid of the smi ; for I have 

 transplanted Corn, under the hottest sun, im- 

 mediately after the spade or the plough. The 

 l)lants will droop a little, for a day or two, but 

 they will immediately revive, and will go on more 

 vigorously than if they had never been trans- 

 planted. They are less prone to have suckers 

 (of which I shall say more by-and-bye), than 

 plants are which are not transplanted ; and they 

 ripen their fruit earlier by a fortnight or three 

 weeks. 



76. There is another very great 'advantage in 

 this mode of planting. I have observed before 

 that it enables you to put the work of planting 

 off, for a fortnight or three weeks, while it makes 

 your crop earlier; but, besides this, it enables 

 you to deposite your manure, if that be scarce 

 with you, all just under the place where the plants 

 are to stand. Your ground, supposing the single 

 rows above described, being ploughed into live 

 feet lands, you put the manure along the fur- 

 rows, turn the lands back again, and then put 

 your plants along the middle of your land, where 

 the drill would have been if you had planted 

 by grain instead of plants; and, though this 



