GENERAL REMARKS. 
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general, and especially to those in which £ lants aie raised 
for the purpose of being transplanted. 
Those species and varieties embraced in the fifth and sixth 
columns , often take from two to three or four weeks to vege- 
tate in unfavourable seasons. Some plants are retarded by 
cold, others by excess of dry weather ; and at such times, 
seed may fail to vegetate for want of pressure. In the 
event of drought after neavy rains, seed and young plants 
often perish through incrustation of the soil, and from other 
untoward circumstances, which can neither be controlled or 
accounted for, even by the most assiduous and precise gar- 
dener. It must, however, be conceded, that failures often 
occur, through seed being deposited too deep in the ground, 
or left too near the surface ; sometimes, for want of suffi- 
ciency of seed in a given spot, solitary plants will perish, 
they not having sufficient strength to open the pores of the 
earth, and very frequently injudicious management in ma- 
nuring and preparing the soil will cause defeat. 
I have been induced to expatiate, and to designate, in the 
seventh range of the preceding table , such plants as are gene- 
rally cultivated first in seed beds, and afterward transplanted 
for the purpose of being accommodated with space to mature 
in, with a view to answer at once the thousand and one 
questions asked by inexperienced cultivators, at my counter 
Some persons, from ignorance of the nature and object of 
raising plants for transplanting, ask for pounds of seed, when 
an ounce is amply sufficient for their purpose. For example, 
an ounce of Celery seed will produce ten thousand plants 
An ounce of Cabbage seed will produce from three to foui 
thousand, sufficient, when transplanted, to cover nearly half 
an acre of land, which land, if sown with Spinach, foi 
instance, would require from four to six pounds of seed. 
To prevent any altercation on this subject, I would observe, 
in conclusion, that many other vegetables will admit of 
being transplanted besides those designated in our table; 
but as there is considerable risk and trouble inseparable from 
