TRANSPLANTING INDIAN CORN 



Then they have put them into ground where prosperous neigh 

 bours had the start of them ; that is not my plan. I am not at all 

 surprized, that they have not found their plan to answer : but, 

 that is no reason that mine should not answer. The best way will 

 be to try three rows in any field, and see which method requires the 

 least labour and produces the largest crop. 



224. At any rate, the facts, which I have stated upon this subject 

 are curious in themselves ; they are useful, as they shew what we 

 may venture to do in the removing of plants ; and they shew most 

 clearly how unfounded are the fears of those, who imagine, that 

 Corn is injured by ploughing between it and breaking its roots. 

 My plants owed their vigour and their fruit to their removal into 

 fresh pasture : and, the oftener the land is ploughed between 

 growing crops of any sort (allowing the roots to shoot between the 

 ploughings) the better it is. I remember that LORD RANELAH 

 showed me in 1806, in his garden at Fulham, a peach tree, which 

 he had removed in full bloom, and that must have been in March, 

 and which bore a great crop of fine fruit the same year. If a tree 

 can be thus dealt with, why need we fear to transplant such things 

 as Indian Corn ? 



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