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one day ; and I shall think it very hard if two 

 men do not put the whole completely up in a 

 week. The Savoys are very fine. A little too 

 late planted out ; but still very fine ; and they 

 were planted out under a burning sun and 

 without a drop of rain for weeks afterwards. 

 So far from taking any particular pains about 

 these Savoys, I did not see them planted, arid 

 1 never saw them for more than two months 

 after they were planted. The ground for them 

 was prepared thus : the ground, in each inter 

 val between the Broom-Corn, had been, some 

 little time before, ploughed to the rows. This 

 left a deep furrow in the middle of the interval. 

 Into this furrow I put the manure. It was a 

 mixture of good mould and dung from pig- 

 styes. The waggon went up the interval, and 

 the manure was drawn out and tumbled into 

 the furrow. Then the plough went twice on 

 each side of the furrow, and turned the earth 

 over the manure. This made a ridge, and 

 upon this ridge the plants were planted as 

 quickly after the plough as possible. 



174. Now, then, what is the trouble; what 

 is the expence, of all this? The seed was ex 

 cellent. I do not recollect ever having seen so 

 large a piece of the cabbage kind with so few 

 spurious plants. But, though good cabbage 

 seed is of high price, I should suppose, that 



