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mixed up with the ball of earth surrounding the roots. In 

 sowing seeds of onion, carrots, radishes and turnips in open 

 ground, have the soil thoroughly tilled, pulverised, cleaned 

 from weeds and levelled previous to sowing. These seeds 

 should be sown in drills 2 feet apart, so that a bullock-hoe 

 may be used between the drills. 



(20). In transplanting a dull or showery day should be 

 chosen, if possible, or else the plants thoroughly watered or 

 transplanting done after a heavy shower of rain and the soil 

 round them mulched if mulching materials are available. The 

 plants are to be set a little deeper in the soil than they were 

 in the seed-bed and the soil round the roots should be made 

 firm with the hand without however bruising the necks of 

 the plants. The plants should never be pulled up from the 

 seed-beds but always lifted up, with a little soil adhering to 

 the rootlets. Watering the seed-bed before lifting, helps 

 this. Watering the transplanted seedlings should be done 

 2 or 3 times a week early in the morning or late in the after- 

 noon, until they are well established. If mulching is done, 

 saving in watering and hoeing will be effected. 



(21). In transplanting, the spacing should be regulated 

 by two considerations ist, that two adjacent plants when 

 fully grown up may not touch each other, and 2ndly, that 

 there may be sufficient space for water channels between two 

 rows of plants. The plants may be thus set closer in lines 

 than rn rows. When sowing is done in the open, as in the 

 case of radish, turnips, carrots, onions, &c., the plants should 

 be thinned out, the strongest plants being left, wherever 

 possible, proper regard being had to regularity of the lines 

 and the evenness of distance among the plants. 



(22). Transplanted into deep and wide trenches, English 



vegetables can be grown in the plains, up to June. The 



irrigation should be done in the trenches, the plants being 



set on two ridges at the bottom of the trench. The trenches 



should be made 2 or 2j feet deep $iid about the saipe in 



