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ground 44 feet long, and 22 feet wide, divided into 

 four beds of about 5 feet each bed ; holes 20 inches 

 deep were made for each plant, and two ranks of 

 plants in each bed, 3 feet afunder, (which I think 

 is too near by a foot.) The ground was kept very 

 clean from weeds, and every year in the month of 

 October was dunged, the fame as for afparagus, and 

 cleaned off again the fpring following. 



Nov. 15, 1782, one of the borders of rhubarb 

 was taken up; and of the roots, after they were cut, 

 cleaned, and dried, there was left 54lbs. of good 

 rhubarb; 5clbs. of which were fold in May laft to 

 a druggift in London for £10. 



In September 1783, the other three rhubarb 

 borders were taken up, and produced i661bs. of 

 rhubarb of equal quality with the rhubarb herewith 

 fent. The remainder of the rhubarb roots were 

 produced from fome plants that grew in an or- 

 chard of very poor land. The rhubarb roots loft 

 in drying about two-thirds. I am of opinion that 

 the rhubarb going to feed (which will be in four 

 or five years from fowing) lefifens the weight of the 

 roots, and tends much to its putrefaction ; there- 

 fore it would be advifeable to cut off the feed-ftalks 

 as ibon as they appear. The crowns of the plant, 



when 



