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more than the latter. JI think the average weight 
of the bulbs was about 51b.; many reached 8 or glb. 
and fome few 14 or 15lb. 
This year, I again planted out about 4000, in a 
ftrong ftiff loamy foil, and rather wet and low. 
Where the ground was drieft, the plants have 
thriven well; but where it was wet, they have made 
little progrefs. Thefe were planted out on two- 
bout ridges, being nearly five feet diftant row from 
row, and about two feet in the ranks. I expect 
that thefe plants will not ftand the winter fo well 
as thofe on the hilldid. They appear to me to affe& 
a dry fituation: an opinion which correfponds with 
the experiments made by the London Society. In 
the latter fituation, they appear to produce more 
leaves in proportion to the fize of the bulb, than in 
the former. I think the lower leaves might be cut 
off late in the fall, and given to young cattle with 
advantage; as they are otherwife caft during the 
winter. 
I cannot but think that they poflefs fome advan- 
tages over the common turnip. They have a 
{trong power of refifting putrefaction, and of courfe 
endure the froft and wet, but particularly the lat- 
ter, better than moft plants. They are much more 
nutritive than the common turnip; and being of a 
clofer texture, and lefs watery, they contain more 
food in a given fpace. By ftanding up above the 
ground on a foot-ftalk, they are more readily come 
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