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with the greateft poflible uniformity. The Magdeburg* acre will require from 3 to 4 pounds 

 of feed, according to the quality of the foil. If the fowing has been well performed, the plants 

 will be diftant 9 inches, or afoot at mofi. — In cafe the roots grow nearer to each other, 

 they do not contain lefs fugar on this account, but they remain fmall. If too far afunder, 

 they grow larger, but abound lefs in fugar. It is, therefore, lefs detrimental to fow too thick, 

 than too fpariiigly. 



12, It has before been remarked, that the pra£iice of pulling the leaves from the plant 

 ought to be carefully avoided ; but this obfervation relates only to the green vegetating leaves. 

 The' under leaves frequently turn yellow and die, and, in thefe circumflances of decay, they 

 may be taken off, and wiU afford the farmer fome afliftance in a fcarcity of food, without , 

 injury to the culture of our root. 



i^. Refpefling the choice of the feed, befides its early and perfeifl ripening, regard rnuft: 

 be had thit it be not obtained from roots which, after their germination, have been tranf- 

 planted on feed-beds ; but from fuch as remained on the fpot where they grew from the 

 capfules, till autumn, and which likewife have produced the true oblong, thin, conical rootsf. 

 This is necelFary, becaufe fuch a feed from untranfplanted plants produces roots more par- 

 taking of the fpindle-form ; whereas the feed from the tranfplanted roots forms thicker, and, 

 at the fame time, fhorter, and on the lower parts roundifhly terminated roots. — The Art of 

 Gardening affords numerous inftances of the effe£t of this management of feed plants, dif- 

 ferent from thofe that are to be produced from their feed. The feeds obtained from un- 

 tranfplanted lettuce yield, on being fown, plants which but extremely feldom form any heads, 

 ami never obtain any firmnefs. The feed of a loofe, and not tranfplanted, cabbage, never 

 produces white cabbage, but a loofe cole, not fhooting into a head. The feed of fellery, if not 

 procured from a plant, which by tranfplantation has been formed into a knob or nodule; but 

 fiom fellery which, for want of tranfplantation, has produced rather fibrous roots, yields, on 

 being fown, only herb, and no nodules. I am convinced of the truth of thefe affertions 

 from my own experiments, and appeal to what Luder and G ermerjhaufen have written on this 

 fubjeci, as men vvhofe fcience and accuracy will not be difputed. 



14. Among the fpindle-flia.ied runkelriibes there exifts a variety as to their colour. 

 Some have a pale red rind, and are internally quite white ; others with a rind ufually of 

 a more deep red, are inter[iallyy?r//)^fl' reddijh\ others again of a more or lefs deep red h .ve 

 red circles; and, laiHy, there are fome, which, with an almoft: white rind, have the- internal 

 part yellow. — Thofe whictj are white, with-a light red rind, deferve the preference beyond 

 all others. For they yield much fugar, and an agreeable fweet fyrup; which, if well prepared, 

 has no tafte of the root. 



• The author has not faiu whether he means the large or the fmall Magdeburg or Berlin acre.— The for- 

 mer contains '53771, and the fecdnd 24197 French fquare fett. Probably he underftands the large, in the 

 common ufe of the language. — Tranflator. 



•j- It is in aulunin, as noticed before, that the runkelriibes muft be gathered, and kept, duricg the win- 

 . ttr, Utfc.nded from the froft ; becaufe they are biconialpUnts. .1 ;■ • ':-d' ■ ~r ' . :'•* 



15. The 



