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XXXIV. On the Transplantation of Plants with Spindle- 

 shaped Roots. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 

 F. R. S. $c. President. 



Read February 7, 1826. 



It is a generally received opinion amongst gardeners, that 

 plants with spindle-shaped roots cannot be advantageously 

 cultivated by transplantation ; and it cannot be questioned 

 that the most perfect crops of plants of this habit, both in 

 quantity and quality, will be obtained by permitting them to 

 retain their first situation and position. But the value of 

 every crop is rather to be estimated by the price it will make 

 in the market, or the amount of convenience it will afford in 

 a private family, than by its quantity, or quality ; and con- 

 sequently much may be advantageously sacrificed to obtain 

 a crop at the period in which it is most wanted. I succeeded 

 in bringing to my table, a crop of Carrots, in the last spring, 

 nearly a month earlier than I could have done by the ordinary 

 modes of cultivation ; and as the same mode of management 

 appears applicable to every plant of similar nature, and, as the 

 process appears very unlikely to fail of success in the very 

 worst seasons, I have thought it worth communicating to the 

 Horticultural Society. 



Pots of ten inches in width at the top, and of eight inches 

 deep, were selected in the end of January, and filled to the 

 depth of two inches with compost of the richest quality ; and 

 a smaller pot of nearly six inches deep, and eight wide, was 



