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the ridges, immediately upon the pare in which the manure has been inclofed.;. 

 as by having this accomplifhcd in an accurate manner, they not only admit of 

 being cultivated betwixt with more eafe and convenience, but derive the utmofl 

 polTible advantage from the manure, and at the fame time, from its being more 

 concentrated, require a final ler proportion to be employed. 



The fize of the plants is likewife a circumftance of much confequence, as 

 the large (lout plants not only take root with more certainty, but are lefs ex- 

 pofed to danger from flugs and other caufes.* In removing the plants from 

 the feed or other bed, for the purpofe of being planted out, it is alfo of nuich 

 utility to have their roots as little broken or otherwife injured as poflible. 

 Moid or rainy weather is the mod fuitable for this operation ; but in dry fea- 

 fons it may be well accomplished after the plants in the beds have been well 

 watered. The number of plants that are employed muft obvioufly be different, 

 according to the diflances at which they are planted ; but from five to feven. 

 thoufand are generally fufficient for an acre of land. 



In fetting the young plants out into the ground, it is neceffary to fee that the 

 labourers fix them well in the foil, by applying the mould fo firmly round their 

 roots by means of the dibble, that they cannot be eafily drawn out by taking 

 hold of their uppermofl leaves. The plants are moftly dropped at proper di- 

 fiances, by women or children, and the dibblers follow, having a flick for mark 

 ing the diflances with in an exacl: manner. In this way an ordinary labourer 

 will plant a quarter of an acre or more in a day, and an expert gardener nearly 

 as much more. In the courfe of a fortnight or three weeks after the firft fetting 

 out of the plants, it will be requifite to fill up all the vacancies that have been 

 produced by the failure of particular plants ; in performing which a moifl time, 

 if it be poflible, mould be chofen. 



Mr. Young has however advifed it, as a more certain and advantageous method, 

 to drill the feed where the plants are to grow in the beginning of April, after fome 

 fort of hoeing crop, fuch as turnips, tares, potatoes, beans, &c. prepared by being 

 ploughed into three or four feet ridges. In March the manure fhould be dcpo- 

 fited in the furrows of thefe ridges, to the quantity of from twenty to thirty 

 cubical yards the acre, according to the land. After having remained in this 

 Hate a fortnight, the lands mould be harrowed where flirTor heavy, but in other 

 cafes omitted ; the feed is then drilled in by the Northumberland drill hung to a 

 roller eight feet in length, where the ridges are four feet, and fix feet in length, 



* Correaed Report of Suffolk, 



