PROPAGATION AND CHAP. 



branch. Offsets are parts of the root and plant separated 

 from the main root. 



CULTIVATION. 



103. HERE, as in the foregoing parts of this Chapter, 

 I propose to speak only of what is of general application, 

 in order to save the room that would be necessary to re- 

 peat instructions for cultivation under the names of the 

 several plants. 



104. The ground being good, and the sowing, or plant- 

 ing, having been properly performed, the next thing is 

 the after -management, which is usually called the culti- 

 vation. 



105. If the subject be from seed, the first thing is to 

 see that the plants stand at a proper distance from each 

 other ; because, if left too close, they cannot come to 

 good. Let them also be thinned early 5 for, even while 

 in seed-leaf, they injure each other. Carrots, parsnips, 

 lettuces, every thing, ought to be thinned in the seed- 

 leaf. 



106. Hoe, or weed, immediately ; and, let me observe 

 here, once for all, that weeds never ought to be suffered 

 to get to any size either in field or garden, and especially 

 in the latter. 



107. But, besides the act of killing weeds, cultivation 

 means moving the earth between the plants while growing. 



