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Tlie largesfe and handsomest they begin ia 

 pull in September and October; these are 

 very neatly formed into bunches, and con- 

 signed to the London market by the waggon 

 load, at the enormous expense of tzvo gui- 

 ?ieas for the carriage only, which, with the 

 additional trouble and charge of double hoe-^ 

 mgy pulliug, zcashiifg, and bunching, gives it 

 the appearance of a very expensive crop : 

 but when it is taken into the calculation, that 

 three, sometimes /bz^r loads are produced from 

 a single acre, that (according to the season) 

 sell in London from Jour to sk pounds per 

 load, the great advantage becomes palpably 

 striking even to the most indifferent arithme- 

 tician. But the emolument ends not here ; 

 for, upon tiie average, no more than two- 

 thirds of the produce are included in the' 

 above proportion, as turning out suSciently 

 hatidsome for tlie trade before described ; 

 the remaining^ proportion, that are short, ?'//- 

 shaped, d.nd forked, are deemed refuse, and 

 used in the winter by such growers as have 

 stock of their own, or disposed of by those 

 who have noiie, to their neighbours, at a very 

 moderate price. To the corroboration of 



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