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exprefs our doubts, whether it can be advantageoufly intro- 

 'duced on fo general a fcale as he may apprehend. The foil, 

 in which it fhould feem from experiment that the beft crops 

 of mowing furze are procured, we conceive may more ad- 

 vantageoufly be employed for the raifmg of corn ; than which, 

 and the intervening crops of green food that may be pro- 

 cured, particularly cabbages, we prefume to think nothing 

 can be of fo fubflantial a value. Local fituations and pecu- 

 liarities may, however, furniih occafional exceptions to this 

 general rule; and efpecially where land is comparatively 

 cheap, and the article of fuel very dear, it may be of confi- 

 derable advantage for the publick to be fully apprized of the 

 beft method of raifmg a crop, capable of being applied, as 

 occafion may happen to render convenient, to either of two 

 wfeful purpofes — food or firing. 



Article X. ^ 

 Of the Ro9t of Scarcity^ 

 [By the Same.] 



'l ^HE feeds I had from a common feed-ibop, 

 '^ therefore it is po(ftble they were not of the true 

 fortj but the plants were fo much like thofe of the 

 true fort that have been defcribed by others, that 

 I ihink it is extremely prcbahle they were genuine. 



It is plainly a variety of the beet. The roots 

 were of varijus colours, white, yellow^ and redi 



the 



