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turnep is fo favourite a vegetable, that hot-leds are 

 fometimes made in February and March to forward it, 

 though thus cultivated, it can attain but to a^ery fmalf 

 fize. A bed of thi* fort mud be (light, and have a great 

 deul of air from the very fowing. A moderately light 

 foil, with little dung, fuits turneps belt, and -they 

 fhould always have open ground that is well broke.' 

 Mix the feed with a little fine earth, fow thin, trample 

 clufe, and rake lightly : It is a way with fome, to few 

 one third old feed with the new, tor the greater cer- 

 tainty of a crop, the former fometimes fheceeding wrier* 

 the latter mines. Do not neglect to* hoe the crops iii 

 time, the early ones to five or fix inches, and the late. 

 ones to eight or nine, though fome large forts fhould 

 have more difurjee allowed them. 



When the fly is obferved to attack young turneps r 

 it will be proper to ftir the ground, and fow again im- 

 mediately, or to chufe another fpot for the purpofe. 



The Navew (which is much admired by fome, and 

 faid to be the molt nourifhing fort of turnep) fhould be 

 repeatedly fown from March to Av.gvjl, m a moid 

 ground ; but being a fmall (lender root, need not (land- 

 wider than five-or fix inches. 



The ca&bage turns? is of two kinds: one? 

 apples above ground, and the other in it. This vege- 

 table is fometimes u fed young for the table; but it .is' 

 chiefly cultivated for cattle. Sow it in May, or June* 

 for autumn ufe, or in June, or July, for the jpring: They 

 are very hardy. If fown in 2 garden, and pricked out* 

 they may be tranfplanted in fields, the firft moift 

 weather after a crop of oats, or barley, at half a yard in 

 a poor, or near two feet in a rich foil; and if the: 

 ground is foul, this culture gives a fine opportunity 

 to clean it, by repeated hoeing. 



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