GENERAL REMARKS. 29 



general, and especially to those in which plants are raised 

 for the purpose of being transplanted. 



Those species and varieties embraced in the fifth and sixth 

 columns, often take from two to three or four weeks to vege- 

 tate in unfavourable seasons. Some plants are retarded by 

 cold, others by excess of dry weather ; and at such times, 

 seed 'may fail to vegetate for want of pressure. In the 

 event of drought after neavy rains, seed and young plants 

 often perish through incrustation of the soil, and from other 

 untoward circumstances, which can neither be controlled or 

 accounted for, even by the most assiduous and precise gar- 

 dener. It must, however, be conceded, that failures often 

 occur, through seed being deposited too deep in the ground, 

 or left too near the surface ; sometimes, for want of suffi- 

 ciency of seed in a given spot, solitary plants will perish, 

 they not having sufficient strength to open the pores of the 

 earth, and very frequently injudicious management in ma- 

 nuring and preparing the soil will cause defeat. 



I have been induced to expatiate, and to designate, in the 

 seventh rnnge of the preceding tahle, such plants as are gene- 

 rally cultivated first in seed beds, arid afterward transplanted 

 for the purpose of being accommodated with space to mature 

 in, with a view to answer at once the thousand and one 

 questions asked by inexperienced cultivators, at my counter. 



Some persons, from ignorance of the nature and object of 

 raising plants for transplanting, ask for pounds of seed, when 

 an ounce is amply sufficient for their purpose. For example, 

 an ounce of Celery seed will produce ten thousand plants. 

 An ounce of Cabbage seed will produce from three to four 

 thousand, sufficient, when transplanted, to cover nearly half 

 an acre of land, which land, if sown with Spinach, for 

 instance, would require from four to six pounds of seed. 



To prevent any altercation on this subject, I would observe, 

 in conclusion, that many other vegetables will admit of 

 being transplanted besides those designated in our table ; 

 but as there is considerable risk and trouble inseparable from 



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