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1792.. on the-culture of madder. Tr 
most economical mode of rearing these would be to sow 
them in a bed of good garden mold, in the month of May,. 
or beginning of June, to water them when necefsary, and 
keep them free from weeds till the month of October, when 
they fhould be transplanted to where they are to remain. 
A good preparation for the ground for receiving the 
plants, is to have had it trenched the winter before, tho- 
roughly dunged in the spring, and sowed with pease. 
When the pease are taken off the ground let it be plough- 
ed and planted at the same time. ‘The method of planting 
is this: The young plants must be taken carefully from 
the seed bed, so as to preserve their roots as entire as pof- 
sible, and laid carefully into bafkets provided for that pur-. 
pose. When the plough is working, let women be distri- 
buted at regular distances along the ridge, each with a 
bafket of plants. When the plough has opened a furrow 
Jet the plants be placed in it carefully, with their top a 
small matter below the surface of the ground, and the root 
placed at its length downwards, fixed in the newly moved 
mold. ‘The plants may be put in at about a foot from each 
other in these rows. Two rows may be planted in the 
two contiguous furrows; and then three furrows may be 
emitted, and the fourth and fifth planted, and so on till the 
field be completed. The ground at the time of planting 
fhould get as deep a furrow as can be given it. And the 
field be laid perfectly dry during the winter. 
In this state it may remain till the spring; when the . 
‘surface fhould be harrowed smooth, as early as dry wea- 
ther will permit ; the annual weeds cut down by ahand hoe 
as soon as the plants appear, and the intervals between the 
double rows be horse hoed during the summer, as often as 
fhall be found convenient. The procefs of horse hoing is as 
yet very little understood in any part of Britain. The ope- 
sation fhould be so conducted.as to lay the earth alternate. 
