[ $343. 
No. III. One fquare lug, ridges about two feet, Ibs. 
plants three feet in rows, feed fown end 
of April, weight - - - - - - -. 260 
The inferiority of No. I. was not, I believe, owing 
to early fowing, but more of that plantation failed 
than of the others, and no opportunity offering to 
replace them for nearly fix weeks, the plants in the 
feed-bed were ftinted in their growth by the 
drought, and never throve well afterwards; nearly 
a fourth of the bulbs in the firft lug were of this 
defcription. Had it been otherwife, 1 believe the 
firft would have been the beft. I compute the 
average weight at fomewhat more than eighteen 
tons per acre. 
It is remarkable that numbers I. and FET. fhould 
be exactly equal in weight, the rows in one cafe 
being three feet, in the other two feet afunder: but 
it is worth obferving, that the weight of the leaves, 
in proportion to that of the bulbs, (for I weighed 
them feparately) was greater inthofe at two feet, 
than in thofe at three feet. As foon as this expe- 
riment is completed, I {hall tranfmit a particular 
account of it to the fociety. 
Upon the whole of my experience, I recommend 
this plant very earneftly to the attention of farmers ; 
and am much miftaken, if it will not be found, 
under proper management, to be one of the beft 
hitherto cultivated, efpecially as a late /pring food. 
I recommend 
