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and half a pound of genuine feeds be fown thereon, 
and covered in with a ftrong rake, or light harrow ; 
or if the provifion has not been made, a piece of turf, 
pared and burnt, and dreffed in like manner, will 
anfwer well the immediate purpofe; or in lieu, re- 
courfe may be had to the fubfoil of a winter fheep- 
fold, the ftraw, dung, and a thin turf having previ- 
oufly been removed. As the plants rife, the fly 
mutt feduloufly, and may here ea/ily, be attended to; 
and if their depredations are difcovered, let wood- 
afhes or foot be flightly, however immediately, 
{trewed over the bed, the operator walking on the 
windward fide, and repeated if neceffary. 
If before Midfurgmer, the time for removing the 
plants to the field, they are obferved to advance too 
faft in their growth, or their ftems, from weeds 
having arifen among them, or any other caufe, are 
drawing out to an improper length, and as thereby 
they might in a degree lofe a proper fhape never to 
be regained, they may in either or both cafes, be 
prevented by the following method:—Begin draw- 
ing them clean up on one fide of the bed, and turn- 
ing the earth over whereon they ftood four or five 
inches deep with a fpade, lay them along the trench 
forty or fifty!in every yard; their roots being then 
covered with the earth of the next fpit, muft be 
gently trodden down, and the digging continued 
until another trench be formed, about twenty inches 
from the firft, to be fupplied in like manner with 
plants, 
