S P R 



S P R 



town of Kentucky, in Waftiington county, containing 249 

 inhabitants. — Alfo, a polt-town in Robertfon county, Te- 

 neflee, 763 miles from Wafliington. 



SPRINGHILL, a townihip of Pennfylvania, in Fayette 

 county, containing 1837 inhabitants, of whom nine are 

 flaves. — Alfo, a townfhip of the Indiana territory, in the 

 county of Clark, containing 1107 free inhabitants and feven 

 flaves. 



SPRINGVILLE, a townfhip of the Indiana territory, 

 in the county of Clark, containing 1380 free inhabitants and 

 13 flaves. 



SPRINGY or Elastic Body. See Elastic Body. 



Springy Land, in jigrtcullure, fuch as is fubjeft to the 

 breaking forth of fmall oozing fpringe. It is a fort of 

 ground very troublefome to the farmer in the cultivation, 

 as requiring much draining, and other management, to ren- 

 der it proper for cropping. See Draining of Land, and 

 Soil. See alfo SpRiNG-Z)nj;Wnf. 



SPRINTZNSTAIN, in Geography, a towrn of Auftria ; 

 7 miles S. of Aigen. 



SPRIT, in jigriculture, a term fometimes made ufe of 

 to fignify a young fprout or {hoot, as in the cafe of new- 

 fown grain of any kind. Thus, new-fown corn is often 

 faid to be juft fprit, by the farmer. It alfo denotes, in 

 fome cafes, fprouted corn ; as that which is grown or fprit 

 in the Iheaf or (travv, in the field, from moift weather. 



Sprit, in Sea I,anguage, is a fmall boom, or pole, 

 which erodes the fail of a boat diagonally, from the malt to 

 the upper hindmoil corner of the fjil, which it is ufed to 

 extend and elevate : the lower end of the fprit refts in a firt 

 of wreath or collar, called the Jkotter, which encircles the 

 maft in that place : fails of this kind are accordmgly called 

 fpritfalh. See Sail. 



SPRITSAIL, a fqnare fail ufed under the bowfprit. 



SpRirsAlL-To/>/ail, a fqnare fail ufed under the jib-boom, 

 but is no longer to be fiipplifd in the navy. 



SPRITTING, in Agriculture, a term applied to the aft 

 er procefs of germinating, fprouting, or fliooting forth, 

 either in the work of vegetation, or the operation of malt- 

 ing barley, or other kinds of grain. It is of much confe- 

 quence, in both thefe cafes, that the procefs takes place m 

 a proper manner; as, without it, neither good and perfeft 

 field feed-crops nor malt can be produced. In moiil or wet 

 harvell feafons, the fpntting of the grain, or other matters, 

 in the flieaf or ftoiik, in the field, is often of much injury, 

 inconvenience, and lofs to the farmer, and (hould always be 

 guarded againfl as much as poflible, by proper ftouking, 

 hutting, mowing, or fome other means in fuch a fuuation. 

 See Harvesting Grain. 



SPROD, among the fiihermen of many parts of Eng- 

 land, a name given to the falmon while in his fecond year's 

 growth. 



SPROE, in Geography, a fmall ifland of Denmark, 

 fituated in the Great Belt. Veflels which pafs the Great 

 Belt in winter are often obliged to fhelter here, though 

 there is only one farm on the ifland. During winter the 

 poll regularly Hops here ; and an ice-boat, conJufted by 

 five men, is provided for the convenience of padengers, let- 

 ters, &c. ; 8 miles N.W. of Corfoer. N. iat. 55° 22'. E. 

 long. 10° 59'. 



SPROTTAU, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 

 Glogau, on a river of the fame name, at its conflux with 

 theBober; 21 miles W.S.W. of Glogau. N. Iat. 51° 32'. 

 E. long, if 32'.— Alfo, a river of Silefia, which runs into 

 the Bober, at the town i.f Sprottau. 



SPROUT, in Agriculture and Gardening, the common 



name of the young fhoot, offset, or fucker, which is thrown 

 or fent off" from any part of a vegetable of the plant, tree, 

 or (hrub kind. 



Fruit-trees and flirubs, which are defigned for produftion, 

 mult conftantly be kept pretty free from thefe forts of 

 fprouts, ftioots, and fuckers, or their capability of affording 

 good fruit will be much lellened and rellrifted. This is 

 particularly the cafe in the goofeberry and currant flirubs, 

 which fcarccly produce any at all, where they are let re- 

 main. See Offset and Sucker. 



In hedge plants, however, the fending off numerous 

 fprouts or flioots from the inferior and bottom parts of their 

 roots and Hems, is often of very confiderable utility, in 

 rendering the lower portions of the fences more thick and 

 clofe, where it does not too much injure the growth and 

 ftrength of the plants which are made ufe of for the pur- 

 pofe, as is fometimes the cafe. See Hedge and Quickset 

 Hedge. 



In the praftice of gardening, fprouts or fljoots are occa- 

 fionally, though not frequently, employed for raifing new 

 crops of vegetables of the fame kind as the original plants. 

 This is fometimes the cafe in the cabbage, and a few other 

 fimilar kinds, as well as in fome forts of tree and ftirubby 

 plants. 



But though the flips of the fprouts or ftioots, in the cab- 

 bage tribe of plants, will readdy take root and grow, when 

 planted out while they are in a young ftate, they are only 

 proper to be made ufe of in this way in an occafional man- 

 ner, in particular cafes and circumftances ; as, for inftance, 

 in planting them for feed in any particularly good and 

 valuable fort. In which cafe, fome of the beft flips of the 

 fprouts, ill the more early crops, may be taken off, on the 

 approach of the autumnal feafon, and be planted out in 

 rows, at the diftance of about two feet from each other, 

 giving them frequent waterings at firft, when they will take 

 root and grow fo as to eltablifli themfelves in a ready man- 

 ner, (hooting up to form feed-Items in the enfuing Ipring, 

 from which feed of the molt perfeft kind may be coUefted 

 and fecured. 



The fprouts, fuckers, and flioots, of plants of the tree 

 or flirub kinds are, m lome cafes, flipped off and ufed in 

 railing young trees and flirubs of the fame forts as the ori- 

 ginals, with the greateft certainty, and in the moll eafy and 

 expeditious manner. In fuch intentions, the flips or (hoots 

 are, for the moll part, taken off in the early (pring, or to- 

 wards the autumn, and planted out in rows in the nurfery 

 grounds, at fuitable diftances, according to their nature and 

 habits of growth ; or placed in pots, to be fet out in the 

 open ground, or to be forced forward by the heat of the 

 hot-beds, in the Itoves, hot-houfes, frames, and other (imilar 

 compartments of the garden. They are afterwards, as foon 

 as they have ftricken or taken full root, in many cafes, re- 

 moved and put out in different ways, according to circum- 

 ftances, and their particular nature and habits, as is (hewn 

 in fpeaking of the culture of the different forts, under their 

 proper heads. 



Sprouts, Efculent, the fine, fmall, young, tender, green 

 flioots, which are fent off and produced from the fides or 

 other parts of different kinds of culinary vegetables or 

 plants, and made ufe of as human food at different periods 

 and feafons of the year. There is a great number of gar- 

 den vegetables which afford fprouts of this nature, and fome 

 in confiderable abundance as crops for this purpofe ; as 

 thofe of the hrtijjtea tribe in particular, as feen below. 



In lome herbaceous efculent plants the young fprouts are 

 excellent eating, as in the cabbage kinds, and feme others, 



affording 



