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I repeat it, though I do not set it down as a general rule 

 to follow, that 1 plant will produce more than the 6, 7, 8, 

 9, 10, 20, or more would or could, were they allowed to 

 be grown in any one place. I have proved it repeatedly 

 by experiments, and others may do the same, that one plant 

 at a place, or in one hole, will invariably produce more 

 than any other number above it, proportion ably from 1, 2, 

 or it may be to 50. I conclude, then, that whatever quan- 

 tity of seed we choose to plant for securing the best of 

 crops and sparing the seed, every grain ought to be planted 

 separately, in order that each and ail may tell, and not be 

 subjected to linger, fade away, fall down, or prematurely 

 ripen. As it proves to be correct practice to do this by 

 experiments repeatedly made on small plots of land, why, 

 I enquire, would it not answer the purpose to do it on a 

 broad scale ? " 



40. We have yet, however, to note before leaving this 

 department, to advert to the mode of raising a crop of wheat 

 by transplanting. This method has had some attention 

 directed to it of late, from the circumstance that one great 

 difficulty attendant upon these new, or as from what we 

 have detailed, of old experiments what we may call revived 

 modes of raising crops of wheat, is the getting ready the 

 land in time to admit of the very early sowing which thin 

 seeding or dibbling necessitates. By planting, however, 

 a small space in the corner of a field or in the garden, at 

 an early period, say August or September, a number of 

 plants may be raised to be good and vigorous when the 

 land is ready in autumn. The following, from the " Agri- 

 cultural Gazette," will be interesting on this point : 



" A few years ago an experiment was tried at the model 

 farm at Glasnevin, near Dublin (suggested by the one re- 

 corded by the celebrated gardener, Miller), of transplanting 

 wheat in the spring, parting the roots so as to make each 

 plant into ten or more. The crop was as good as from a 

 field sown in the usual way. It may be worth considering 

 whether this plan might not be advantageously tried if we 

 are to have another wet season \ for the very weather which 



