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little, triffling, contemptible twist of the setting-stick, or 

 dibble; a thing very Avell kno^vn to all gardeners in the 

 case of cabbages, and about which, therefore, I will give, 

 bj and by, very plain instructions. 



72. Thus puzzled, and not being able to spare time 

 to do the job myself, I was one day looking at my poor 

 plants, which were dailj' suffering for want of removal, 

 and was thinking how glad I should be of one of the 

 Churciiers at Bolley, Avho, I thought to myself, would 

 soon clap me out my turnip patch. At this very time, 

 and into the field itself, came a cousin of one of these 

 Churchers, who had lately arrived from England! 

 It was very strange, but literally the fact. 



73. To work Churcher and I Ment, and, with the aid 

 of persons to pull up the plants and bring them to us, 

 we planted out about two acres, in the mornings and 

 eoenings of six days : for the weather was too hot for us 

 to keep out after breakfast, until about two hours be- 

 fore sun-set. There was a friend slaying M'ith me, who 

 helped us to plant, and who did, indeed, as much of 

 the work as either Churcher or I. 



74. The time when this was done was from the 21st 

 to the 28th of August, one Sunday and one day of no 

 planting, having intervened. Every body knows, that 

 this is the ver}- hottest season of the year; and, as it 

 happened, this was, last summer, the very driest also. 

 The weather had been hot and dry from the 10th of 

 August: and so it continued to the 12th of September. 

 Any gentleman who has kept a journal of last .>ear, 

 upon Long Island, Avill know this to be correct. Who 

 would have thought to see these plants thrive; who 

 would have thought to see them livei' The next day 

 after being planted, tlieir leaves crumbled between our 

 fingers, li.ke the old leaves of trees. In two days there 

 was no more appearance of a crop upon the ground 

 than there was of a crop on the tunipike-road. But, 

 on the 2nd of September, as I have it in my memoran- 

 dum-book, the plants 6e^a« to show life; and, before 

 the rain came, on the 12th, the piece began to have an 

 air of verdure, and, indeed, to grow and to promise a 

 good crop, 



75. I will speak of the bulk of this crop by and by; 



