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each; and several weighed fourteen pounds 

 each. My very largest upon Long Island 

 weighed twelve pounds and a half. In all these 

 cases, as well here as in England, the produce 

 was from transplanted plants ; though at Hyde 

 Park, I have many turnips of more than ten 

 pounds weight each from sown plants, some 

 of which, on account of the great perfection in 

 their qualities, I have selected, and am now 

 planting out, for seed. 



71. I will now give a full account of my trans 

 planting at Hyde Park. In a part of the ground, 

 which was put into ridges and sown, I scat 

 tered the seed along Very thinly upon the top of 

 the ridge. But, however thinly you may at 

 tempt to scatter such small seeds, there will 

 always be too many plants, if the tillage be 

 good and the seed good also. I suffered these 

 plants to stand as they came up ; and, they 

 stood much too long, on account of my want 

 of hands, or, rather, my want of time to attend 

 to give my directions in the transplanting; and, 

 indeed, my example too ; for, I met not with a 

 man who knew how tojlx a plant in the ground ; 

 and, strange as it may appear, more than half 

 the bulk of crop depends on a little, trifling, 

 contemptible twist of the setting-stick, or dibble ; 

 a thing very well known to all gardeners in the 

 case of cabbages, and about which, therefore, I 

 will give, by and by, very plain instructions. 



