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are the largeft where the earth is the deepeft. Dry- 

 light Jand is pleafing to them, but wet, ftiff, or hide- 

 bound land is deftructive. If the foil be proper, 

 they do not require much manure. The writer hath 

 obtained a very good crop for three fuccefllve years, 

 from the fame land, without ufing any ; but when 

 he laid at the rate of about forty cart-loads of fand 

 per acre upon a very ftiff loam, and ploughed it in, 

 he found it anfwered very well, from which he con- 

 cludes that a mixture of foils may be proper for 

 this root. 



It is moft advifeable to fow the feed in drills at 

 about 1 8 inches diflant from each other, that the 

 plants may be the more conveniently hand or horfc- 

 hoed; and they will be more luxuriant if they un- 

 dergo a fecond hoeing, and are carefully earthed fo 

 as not to cover the leaves. 



Thofe who have not ground to fpare, or cannot 

 get it in proper condition to receive the feed in the 

 autumn, may at that time fow a plot in their garden, 

 or the corner of fome field, and may tranfplantfrom 

 thence the latter end of the month of April, or early 

 in the May following. The plants .muft be care- 

 fully drawn from the feed plot, and the land that is 

 to receive them fhould be well pulverized by har- 

 rowing and rollings and when it is thus ordered, a 



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