48 PRINCIPLES OF GARDENING. [CH. I. 



germinates. In the di'oughts of summer, water is 

 often required to newly sown beds. Such applica- 

 tion must not be very limited or transitory ; for, if 

 the soil is only moistened at the immediate time 

 of sowing, it induces the projection of the radicle, 

 which in veiy parcliing weather, and in clayey 

 caking soil, I have known wither away, and the crop 

 be consequently lost from the want of a continued 

 supply of moisture. 



