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its way through rock or till. It must not only have 

 an easy road, but something good beneath to invite 

 it downwards. 



With regard to transplanting, though recom- 

 mended by respectable writers, it may be observed, 

 that in a climate where all the growing season is 

 needful, no loss in this way ought to be sustained. 

 Where a single root of this mangold may grow to 

 the weight of thirty or even fifty pounds the grower 

 cannot easily go wrong ; but here, as there is a loss 

 of time by transplanting, so the loss to the crop is 

 irreparable as is the case with the Swedish turnip, 

 though it agrees not ill with the like operation. To 

 have the benefit of transplanting, without sustaining 

 any loss, its proper use is merely to fill any blanks 

 that may occur ; and for this purpose a small bed 

 should be sown a week earlier than the main crop. 



For the principal sowing, let the ground be dug 

 or ploughed with manure before winter ; for this 

 plant, like radish, carrot, or red beet, does not 

 agree with dung newly deposited. Let the soil be 

 deeply stirred up in spring, and, if too shallow, drawn 

 into high drills two feet apart. In plough manage- 

 ment, first make a set of drills, and then reverse 

 them. This double operation is only equal to one 

 ploughing; but it leaves the ground in drills, and 

 every inch has been turned and loosened. In the 

 dryest weather, as near the beginning of April as 

 may be, slightly rake or smooth with the harrow the 

 tops of the drills, on the summit of which sow thin 

 and regular, in small ruts two inches deep : the drills 

 to be afterwards thinned out to the distance of one 

 foot or fifteen inches, according to the strength of 



