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are peculiarly unfitted for it. When plants 
having tap-roots are transplanted, it should 
be into very light soil, and what is called a 
puddle should be made to receive them. To 
do this, a hole or pit should be formed, deeper 
than the root of the plant, and into this pit 
water should be poured and earth thrown in 
and stirred so as to half-fill it with mud. 
The tap-rooted plant should then be plunged 
into the mud, shaking it a little so as to let 
the mud penetrate among its fibrous roots, 
and the hole should be filled in with light 
soil. The plant must afterwards be shaded 
longer than is usual with other plants; and 
when water is given, it should be poured 
down nearer to the main root than in other 
cases, as the lateral fibrous roots never spread 
far from it. Plants with spreading roots, 
when transplanted, should have the pit in¬ 
tended to receive them made shallow, but 
very wide in its diameter; so that the roots 
may be spread out in it to their fullest ex¬ 
tent, except those that appear at all bruised 
or injured, which, as before directed, should 
be cut off with a sharp knife. 
It is a general rule , in transplanting , never 
