22 Cultivation of Arabic, Land. Wheat. Transplanting of. 



crop with advantage. Where the latter fubflances are made ufe of, care fhould 

 always be taken that the plants be not injured, by having too large a quantity of 

 fuch fluids applied to them. In this pradlife the expence fhould be a primary 

 confederation, and fmall trials firft made where dungs are nottobeufedi The 

 proper fcafon is the middle of February*. 



The practice of tranfplanting wheat may be had recourfe to in particular cafes, 

 probably with beneficial confequences, as where there are fome parts of fuch 

 crops too thickly fct upon the ground, while others are too thin, irregular, or 

 patchy, as by thinning and fetting out the plants of fuch over-abundant parts 

 among thofe that are deficient, much fervice may be done to each of them. The 

 firft will be rendered more capable of admitting the operation of, the hoe, and 

 thereby of fupplyiflg more abundant nourishment for the luxuriant vegetation of 

 the plants ; and the latter be fupplied with the proper number of plants, which 

 could not be accomplimed in any other way. It has been fuggefled, that, 

 when cultivated in the garden, one acre would be capable of affording fets for 

 an hundred, when planted after being properly divided, at the diftance of nine 

 inches from each other and as the bufmefs of tranfplanting is to be performed ; 

 in the fpring, it is fuppofed that crops of this grain may be raifed in this manner 

 on lands that poiTefs a. greater degree of moifture than is fuited to the healthy 

 growth of wheat in general. Befides, clean crops may be produced in this 

 way with much greater certainty, as where the ground is ploughed over juft be 

 fore the plants are fet out, the grain may rife much quicker from the plants than 

 the weeds from their feeds, and the crop, in this way, overpower fuch noxious 

 plants f. Many advantages of other kinds -have been ftated by other writers as 

 the refult of this practice J. 



An intelligent farmer in Norfolk had, in the year 1800, a piece of drilled 

 wheat, confiding of nearly eight acres and a half, unfeeded by the careleffnefs 

 of his man. The vacant places were dibbled, but to no purpofe ; the vegetation 

 was fo languid, that, in the courfe of the winter, all the young fprouts died, or were 

 eaten up by vermin. On the fecond of March, 1801, fome women were hired 

 to take up with a bricklayer s trowel plants of wheat from another field, where 

 the crop was very luxuriant. Thefe were planted into the vacant fpaces by chil 

 dren, large holes for them being previoufly made by the handle of a fpade, pointed 

 .at its end. The children were watched very attentively, making them ar- 



* See manuring of tillage lands. t Darwin s Phytologia, p. 2&amp;lt;U, 



I Bogle, in Bath Papers, vol. Ill, 



