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but as it is allowed on all hands to be injurious to 

 the plants *, it merits no farther notice. When we 



* 111 saying that skeugking or laying is " allowed on all 

 hands to be injurious to the plants/' I have used too unquali- 

 fied terms, as I have found, since this remark was written, that 

 there are some who prefer this mode of transplanting to that with 

 the dibble. I shall therefore describe the process, and then 

 state specifically what appears to be objectionable in it. 



In transplanting according to this method, a strip of ground 

 is dug in the direction in which the lines are intended to 

 run; and somewhat broader than the first is intended to be, 

 from the boundary of the ground. The line is then stretched, 

 and a notch made with the spade from the me end to the other, 

 and of the requisite depth. This being done, the plants are 

 placed with their roots in the notch, at such distances from one 

 another as is deemed expedient, nearly in the same inanner in 

 which box is usually laid round the walks of a garden. A little 

 earth must be drawn on the roots with the hand, as the laying 

 proceeds, to keep them steady, and to prevent the wind from 

 undoing the work. The whole line being finished, a little 

 more earth is laid to the roots with the spade, and the plants 

 are then fixed, by pressing this earth firmly down with one foot. 

 Another strip of ground is dug somewhat broader than the in- 

 terval to be allowed between the lines, care being taken not to 

 let any of the earth fall upon the plants, and to level it neatly 

 and smoothly, so as to be equal with that behind them. An- 

 other notch is then made at the proper distance from the first 

 line, and so the work proceeds till the whole be finished. 



Now, what appears objectionable in this method ib- that 



