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be tranfplanted into the vacant patches, in the 

 manner that rape-plants are ulually done. This, 

 however, cannot be praftifed v.'ith profit : tur- 

 nep-plants may be got to live, but not to thrive 

 after tranfplantation. Docs it not, therefore, 

 behove the turnep-grower to fee, that, in the firft 

 hoeing, no artificial vacancies be added to thofe, 

 which too frequently abound, accidentally, or 

 for want of a proper quantity of feed, in almoft 

 every turnep-ground ? 



On the contrary, a fupernumerary plant may 

 be removed on a certainty, and without addi- 

 tional labour or expence ; for the ftroke which 

 loofens the foil, and eradicates the remaining 

 weeds, difplaces a fupernumerary plant. Is it 

 not, therefore, unpardonable management to 

 fet out the plants too thin the firft hoeing? 



The workmen, fome farmers, and theorifts 

 in general^ holdout a plaufibleidea, which has 

 fome fmall degree of truth in it : namely, that 

 if the plants are not fet out regularly the firft 

 hoeing, they cannot afterwards be regulated. 



This, in rows of drilled turneps, would 

 have fome weight ; provided every plant which 

 was left could be infurcd to live, and become a 

 thriving plant. But, in a field of turneps fown 



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