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foot of the plant. This renders a creeping 

 root iinneceffary. Nature's chief care feems 

 to have been to eflablifh the parent plant 

 firmly in the foil, iind to guard againil its 

 definition. 



To this end it is fiifnifhed with a very 

 llrong perennial taproot of fingular proper- 

 ties. If divided below the crown, the part: 

 left in the ground fends forth fapling flioots; 

 and this from almoft any depth; provided 

 it have head-room, or the foil be loofe. The 

 upper part too, if cut off a few inches deep, 

 will furvive the amputation. Even when in- 

 verted with the plow, it will recoil, and find 

 its way to the furface again. 



In this cafe, therefore, the plow alone is an 

 improper implement of deitruction. On the 

 contrary, it may, and frequently does, en- 

 creafe the number of plants ; the part cue 

 off, and the part left below the plow, both of 

 iliem furviving the reparation. 



Hence it is evident, that land v/hich Is in- 

 fedled with docks fnould be gone over with 

 the DRAWING IRON or the SPADE foHie time 

 before the plow be put into it ; that the 

 tops may be removed, and the rootkts Icit in 



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