TULIPS. 
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or tubes, c each having two fubftantial, 
perpendicular, iron handles, to force the 
inftrument into the ground, and draw it 
up again, with the plant and earth con¬ 
nected with its root and fibres ; but in 
Order to difcharge its contents into the 
place prepared for their reception, by 
the other inftrument, of exaCtly fimilar 
dimenfions, it fhould be held together 
on one fide by a ftrong wire, which upon 
being drawn out, when the plant is placed 
in the fituation it is intended for, will 
allow the tube to fpring open a little, fo 
as to permit it to be drawn up again, 
without difturbing the plant; this tube, 
or tranfplanter, fhould be perfedly cylin¬ 
drical, open at both ends, be about 
twelve inches long, fix in diameter, and 
made of the ftrongeft and beft tin plate: 
e See Plate 5, Fig. 5 , 
one 
