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A few words with regard to the culture of cabbages, will 

 be fufficient to point out the necefTity of an intermediate 

 tranfplanting of the young plants between the feed bed and 

 the field ; for, when the plants are drawn from the feed 

 bed, and put diredly into the field, they are found to be 

 out of all proportion, tall, flender, and altogether unfit for 

 their new and expofcd fituation : to this muft be added, a 

 long tap root without lateral fibres ; and which necelTarily 

 undergoes feveral twifts and doubles in the hole by the ope- 

 ration of planting : here the plant languishes till its lateral 

 roots are formed, which is gradually doing as the tap root 

 decays. As the feafon may be more or lefs kind, the plant 

 may droop for a while, but it too often happens, and that 

 in defpite of the mod unwearied indullry, that the plant 

 lofes its life, and its tap root together : hence arifes the ne- 

 ceflity of fuch frequent replantings, and herein lurks the 

 caufe of that univerfal langour, which fo long prevails 

 through all the fields of cabbages that are thus tranfplanted 

 into the field diredly from the feed bed. It is the nature 

 of the cabbage to lofe its tap root upon its firfl: removal ; 

 and in its place is put forth a bunch of lateral roots, juft 

 below the furface of the ground. The ftem of the plant 

 then begins to ilrengthen, and its leaves to fpread. This 

 change in the root being compleated from an intermediate 

 tranfplanting, the young plant will be the better able to 

 combat the hardfhips of its new fituation in the field ; for 

 being already furnilhed with lateral roots, its nourifhment 

 from the ground will be immediate and certain j it will 

 flourifli, and come to an early maturity, rather than lan- 

 guifh for a while, and then peridi, as thoufahds now do, 

 or creep flowly on till late in the feafon, they arrive at a 

 flunted and unprofitable end. In proportion as the lateral 

 roots increafe, and collect nourifiiment, the plant heads 

 and flourifhcs ; nor would the kindlieft plant upon the 



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