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have put the plants in stale hard ground: that 

 is not my plan. Then they have put them into 

 ground where prosperous neighbours 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 them 

 selves ; 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 

 transplaut such things as Indian Corn ? 



