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170. If possible, therefore, transplant when the 

 ground is not wet ; but, here again, as in the case 

 of sowing, let it be dug, r deeply moved, and 

 well broken, immediately before you transplant 

 into it. There is a fermentation that takes place 

 immediately after moving, and a dew arises, 

 which did not arise before. These greatly exceed, 

 in power of causing the plant to strike, any thiag 

 to be obtained by rain on the plants at the time ot 

 planting, or by planting in wet earth. Cabbages 

 and Ruta Raga (or Swedish Turnip) I have pro- 

 ved, in innumerable instances, will, if planted 

 in freshly-moved earth, under a burning sun, be 

 a great deal finer than those planted in wet 

 ground, or during rain. The causes are explain- 

 ed in the foregoing paragraph ; and, there never 

 was a greater, though most popular error, than 

 that of waiting for a shower in order to set about 

 the work of transplanting. In all the books, that 

 I have read, without a single exception : in the 

 English Gardening books ; in the English Far- 

 mer's Dictionary, and many other works on Eng- 

 lish husbandry ; in the Encyclopedia ; in short, 

 in all the books on husbandry and on gardening 

 that I have ever read, English or French, this 

 transplanting in showery weather is recommended. 



171. If you transplant in hot weather, the 

 leaves of the plants will be scorched ; but the 

 hearts will live ; and the heat, assisting the fer- 

 mentation, will produce new roots in twenty-four 

 hours, and new leaves in a few days. Then it is 

 that you see fine vegetation come on. If you 

 plant in wet, that wet must be followed by dry ; 

 the earth, from being moved in wet, contracts the 

 mortary nature ; hardens first, and then cracks ; 



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