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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XVI. i. 2. 



of wheat, or in fituations fi\eltered 



th 



eaft 



ardeii cultivation of peas and beans; or they may be fovved 



very thick 



fe 



■ 



under hot-bed frames 



der warm 



d be tranfplantedy when they 



one or two inches high 



/ * 



into the natural ground at due diflances, when the weather is milder, 

 and the plants are become hardier or lefs liable to be deftroyed from 

 their having longer acquired the habits of life. 



When young plants of any kind are tranfplanted, the ground fliould 

 be recently dug, as their expeditious growth, depends fo much on the 



being buried in the pores or interflices of th 



atmofpheric air 



by the produdion of carbonic and 



heat. 



cid 



and ammonia 



th 



nd 



he fame advantage occurs by foaking feeds in water, or in the 



i 



d th 



drainage from manure heaps, till they are ready to fprout, i 

 fowing them in a foil lately turned over ; as their roots will then im- 

 mediately put out by the newly generated heat, and newly produced 

 carbonic acid in its fluid not its gafTeous ftate. 



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2. The tranfplanting of young roots, if they be fet no deeper th 

 before, does not, I fuppofe, multiply the number of flems, as oc 

 when wheat is tranfplanted fo deep as to cover the fecond joint ; 

 by tearing off feveral fmall extremities of the roots, the new produc 

 tion of many viviparous buds is prevented, and that of oviparous bud 



but 



fed in confeq 



for reafons mentioned in No. 2. 4. of th 



preceding Se6lion. 



When the roots of wheat are tranfplanted and divided, not only J 

 great increafe of the crop is produced, but I believe the feed is like- 

 wife ripened earlier, as is afferted by Mr. Bogle. Bath Society, Vol. Ill 

 p. 494. And it is well known to gardeners, that tranfplanting garden- 



beans forwards them 



r 



fped to time 



but fhortens the height of 



th 



ftem 



He 



I 



fplanted 



getables 



grow 



fs 



in heiofht. as 



a 



fplanted beans, and lefs branchy, as 



fplanted melons, but 



produce and ripen their feeds earlier ; which is a great advantag 



th 



