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The Method of Culture. 



Sow the feed in your early cucumber bed, when a little 

 of the firft heat is over. When the plants have got their 

 third leaves, expofe them to the air ; and when the feafon 

 advances, remove the frame, leaving them in the bed: — 

 in October or November take up the plants, the roots of 

 which will be about half an ounce weight, and bury them 

 under the mould prepared for the next year's hot-beds ; the 

 February following, plant them in an artichoke bed, which 

 ought to be of the deepeft black garden mould, at leaft 

 l\ feet deep; after which they are to be treatedin all rc- 

 fpe&s like artichokes, and about the fixth or feventh year 

 taken up for ufe : — you may cultivate them from off-fets, 

 when you take up a plant, but I think thofe raifed from 

 feed better. I have never been able to obtain any feed 

 from my plants fince that large one, the birds ever fince 

 having conftantly deftroyed it before it was ripe. 



ffov. 2gtb 9 1783. J. S. 



Article IX. 



Observations on the Growth of Jome Rhubarb, fext te 

 the Society by George Poole, Efq. 



Gentlemen, Bicknoller, Somerjet. 



March i6,HT^HE Rhubarb feeds were Town in 



1779. -*- the natural ground, and the aoth 



of March following the plants were removed from 



the feed-bed, and planted in a piece of garden 



ground 



