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** probable these few roots went more than another 

 yard, to give each Turnip as much increase as 

 all the roots had done in their own land. Except 

 that it will hereafter appear, that the new 

 nourishment taken at the extremities of the roots 

 in the land -, might enable the plants to send 

 out more new roots in their own land, and 

 receive something more from thence. The row 

 c being twice as big as the row d y must be 

 supposed to extend twice as far; and the row 

 , four times as far, in proportion as it was of 

 a bulk quadruple to the row d" 



186. Thus, then, it is clear, that tillage amongst 

 growing plants is a great thing. Not only is it 

 of great benefit to the plants ; not only does it 

 greatly augment the amount of the Crop, and 

 make it of the best quality ; but, it prepares the 

 ground for another crop. It & summer fallow be 

 good for the land, here is a summer fallow ; if 

 the ploughing between Indian Corn firefiares the 

 the land for wheat^ the digging between cabbages 

 and other crops will, of course prepare the land 

 for succeeding crops. 



187. Watering plants \ though so strongly re- 

 commended in English Gardening Beoks; and 

 so much in practice, is a thing of very doubtful 

 utility in any case, and, in most cases, of posi- 

 tive injury, A country often endures present 

 suffering from long drought ; but, even if all 

 the gardens and all the fields could, in such a 

 case, be watered with a watering pot, I much 

 question, whether it would be beneficial even to 

 the crops of the dry season itself. It is not, ob 

 serve, rain water that you can, one time out of a 

 -Thousand, water with. And, to nourish 



