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THE AMERICAN GARDENER. [Chap 



England, from having, when in France, observed 

 the effects of inner-tillage on the vines, in the vine- 

 yards. If he had visited America instead of France, 

 he would have seen the effects of that tillage, in a 

 still more striking light, on plants, in your Indian 

 Corn fields; for, he would have seen these plants 

 spindling, yellow, actually perishing, to-day, for 

 want oi ploughing ; and, in four days after a good, 

 deep, clean and careful ploughing, especially in hot 

 weather, he would have seen them wholly change 

 their colour, become of a bright and beautiful green, 

 bending their leaves over the intervals, and growing 

 at the rate of four inches in the twenty-four hours. 



183. The passage, to which I have alluded, is of 

 so interesting a nature, and relates to a matter of so 

 much importance, that I shall insert it entire, and 

 also the plates, made use of by Mr. Tull to illus- 

 trate his meaning. I shall not, as so many others 

 have, take the thoughts, and send them forth as my 

 own ; nor, like Mr. John Christian Curwen, steal 

 them from Tull, and give them, with all the honour 

 belonging to them, to a Bishop, 



184. " A Method how to find the distance to which 

 roots extend horizontally, A piece, or plot, dug 

 and made fine, in whole hard ground [Plate II. 

 Fig. 1.] the end A. 2 feet, the end B. 12 feet, the 

 length of the piece 20 yards ; the figures in the mid- 

 dle of it are 20 Turnips, sown early and well hoed. 

 The manner of this hoeing must be, at first, near 

 the plants, with a spade, and each time afterwards, 

 a foot distance, till the earth be once well dug ; and, 

 if weeds appear where it has been so dug, hoe them 

 out shallow with the hand-hoe. But, dig all the 

 piece next the out-lines deep every time, that it 

 may be the finer for the roots to enter, when they 

 are permitted to come thither. If the Turnips be 



