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4. They fliould be tranfplanted in September, that they may have 

 time to take frefli root before the winter comes on. 



5. If they cannot conveniently be tranfplanted in September, it 

 may be done in Odlober, provided it does not freeze. 



6. The mould into vi^hich they are tranfplanted fliould be moift ; 

 and if the weather be fomewhat rainy, it is fo much the better. In 

 this cafe, I have never found it necelfary to water the plants. 



7. If lucerne is tranfplanted in November or December, there is 

 danger of the frofts forcing many of the plants out of the ground. 



,-• 8. If too warm and dry a feafon prevents tranfplanting in Sep- 

 tember or 0(ftober, it is beft to flay till the v.dnter is paft. The 

 plants will then be fure of taking root, and very few of them will 

 fail. 



9. If they can be tranfplanted in autumn, they will yield pretty 

 good crops the next year : but if they are not tranfplanted till fpring, 

 the next year's crop will be but indifferent. 



10. The plants muft be taken up out of the nurfery with great 

 care and patience, that their roots may not be damaged. 



1 1 . The plants fliould be left about fix or feven inches long, and 

 the green tops fliould be cut off within about two inches of the 

 crown of the root. 



12. The plants will take root the fooner, if they are put in water 

 US foon as they are taken up, and kept in it till they are planted. 



13. They are planted in holes made with a planting fliick, in the 

 fame manner as cabbages or lettices are planted in a garden. 



14. The befl: way of planting lucerne is, to cut a fl:rait channel 

 two or three inches deep, and let the plants in the bottom of it, 

 covering them up to the neck. 



15. Great care fliould be taken not to fuffer any weeds to grow 

 among the lucerne, at leafl; for the two or three firfl years. To this 

 end, the rows fliould be weeded by hand, as well as the edge of 

 the alleys near the plants, where the horfe-hoe cannot go. 



16. The alleys may be fl;irred, either with the Angle cultivator, 

 or the cultivator with two mould boards ; which, at the fame time 

 that it defl:roys the weeds, keeps the mould loofe. 



17. The firfl: flirring may be given with the fingle cultivator, 

 with which a furrow may be cut on each fide of the main furrow 

 in the middle of the alleys, by which means the earth will be 

 turned over on both fides of it, 



18. The 



