Chap. VI. Of Hoeing. 49 



find a more difficult Reception into the clofing Pores ; 

 but many Times the Plant languishes and dies of an 

 Atrophy, being ftarv'd in the midft of Plenty •, but 

 whilft this is thus decaying, the hoed Plant obtains a 

 more.flourifhing State than ever, without removing 

 from the fame Soil that produc'd it. 



5 Tis obferv'd that fome Plants are the worfe for 

 Tranfplanting (a). Fenochia removed is never fo 

 good and tender as that which is not, it receives 

 fuch a Check in Tranfplanting in its Infancy ; which, 

 like the Rickets, leaves Knots that indurate the Parts 

 of the Fennel, and fpoil it from being a Dainty. 



Hoeing has moil of the Benefits without any In- 

 conveniences of Tranfplanting -, becaufe it removes 

 the Roots by little and little, and at different Times ; 

 fome of the Roots remaining undidurb'd, always 

 fupply the moved Roots with Moifture, and the 

 whole Plant with Nourifhment fufficient to keep it 

 from fainting, until the moved Roots can enjoy the 

 Benefit of their new Paflure, which is very foon. 



Another extraordinary Benefit of the new Hoein^ 

 (J?) Hufbandry is, that it keeps Plants moid in dry 

 Weather, and this upon a double Account. 



(a) As mod long Tap-rooted Plants are'; for I have often try'd 

 the Tranfplanting of Plants, of St. Fain and Luferne ; and could 

 never find, that any ever came near to the Perfection that thofe 

 will do which are not removed, being equally fingle. 



Tap-rooted GrafTes and Turneps are always injur'd by Tranf- 

 planting ; their long Root once broken off never arrives at the 

 Depth it would have arriv'd unbroken ; as for this Reafon they cut 

 off the Tap-root of an Apple-tree, to rjireventits running down- 

 ward, by which it would have too mucnlVloiilure. 



(b) Hoeing may be divided into Deep, which is our Korfe- 

 hoeing, and Shallow, which is the Englilh Hand -hoeing; and alfo 

 the Shallow Horfe hoeing, ufed in fome Places betwixt Rows, 

 where the Intervals are very narrow, as fixteen or eighteen Inches ; 

 this is but an Imitation of the Hand-hoe, or a Succedaneum to it ; 

 and can neither fupply the Ufe of Dung, nor of Fallow, and 

 may be properly called Scratch-hoeing, 



E Firft, 



