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places, and filled up the rows by transplantation, 

 which 1 did also in two other fields. 



68. The Turnips, thus transplanted, greTs), and 

 in fact, were pretty good ; but, they were very 

 far inferior to those which had retained their ori- 

 ginal places. But, it happened, that on one side of 

 the above-mentioned piece of turnips, there was a 

 vacant space of about a yard in breadth. When 

 the ploughman had finished ploughing between the 

 rews of turnips, I made him plough up that spare 

 ground very deep, and upon it I made my gardener 

 go and plant two rows of turnips. These became 

 the largest and finest of the whole piece, though 

 transplanted two days later than those which had 

 been transplanted in the rows throughout the piece^ 

 The'cause of this remarkable difference I, at once, 

 saw, was, that these had been put into newly-plough- 

 ed ground ; for, though 1 had not read much of 

 TuLL at the time here referred to, 1 knew, from 

 the experience of my whole life, that seeds as well 

 as plants ought always to go into ground as recent- 

 ly moved as possible ; because at every moving of 

 the earth, and particularly at every turning of it, 

 a new process of fermentation takes place, fresh 

 exhalations arise, and a supply oi the food of plants 

 is thus prepared for the newly-arrived guests.— t- 

 Mr. CuRWEU^, the Member of Parliament, though 

 a poor thing as to public matters, has published not 

 a bad book on agricidture. It is not bad, because 

 it contains many authentic accounts of experiments 

 made by himself ; though I never can think of his 

 book without thinking, at the same time, of the gross 

 and scandalous plagiarisms, which he has commit- 

 ted upon TuLL. Without mentioning particulars, 

 the " Honourable Member" will, 1 am sure, know 

 what I mean, if this page should ever have the ho- 

 nour to fall under his eye ; and he will, I hope, re- 

 pent, and give proof of his repentance, by a resto*^ 

 ration of the property to the right Q\^ner= 



