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amufed, tliis is an unpleafant circumftance, and 

 naturally begets embarraflment, diffidence, and dif- 

 truft. If, by garbling the papers, we could fepa- 

 rate truth from error, right from wrong, confirm 

 and eftablifh the former, and difcountenance the 

 latter, at leaft as being doubtful, if not groundlefs, 

 it would well reward our pains. 



I chofe not turnips for my fubje£t, on account of 

 its importance altogether, but alfo becaufe the gen- 

 tlemen of the Committee did me the honour of afk- 

 ing my opinion of a letter refpecting the fubject. 



Turnips have been generally confidered as an 

 article of precarious culture -, but this is not to be 

 taken in an abfolute fenfe; for every thing was 

 made perfect in its kind ; and there are few things 

 that vegetate more freely or more certainly than 

 the turnip in its proper feafon : but, like all other 

 vegetables, it is more or lefs precarious, as the cir-> 

 cumftances attending its culture are more or lefs 

 favourable. 



Nature has fet and appointed feafons for her fe- 

 veral operations. The fpring months are the pro- 

 per time for vegetation and the growth of plants j 

 the fummer months, for confolidating and maturing 



their 



