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The largeft and handfomeft they begin to 

 pull in September and OcSober ; thefe ar® 

 very neatly formed into bunches, and con- 

 figned to the London market by the waggon 

 load, at the enormous expenfe of two gui- 

 neas for the carriage only, which, with the 

 additional trouble and cliarge of double ^6^?^- 

 ing^ pulling, "Wcijhing, and bunchwg, gives 

 it the appearance of a very expenfive crop ; 

 but when it is taken into the calculation, that 

 three, fometimes/i^r loads are produced from 

 a iingle acre, that (according to the feafon) 

 fell in London from four to frj: pounds per 

 load, the great advantage becomes palpably 

 ftriking even to the moft indifferent arith- 

 metician. • But the en\oIument ends not here ; 

 for upon the average, no more than two- 

 thirds of the produce are included in the 

 above proportion,- as turning out fufRciently 

 handfome for the trade before defcribed ; 

 the remaining proportion, that are Jljorty 

 i/i'fiaped, Tind forked, are deemed rejl/fe, and 

 ufed in the winter by inch growers as have 

 flock of their own, or difpofed of by thofe 

 who have none to their neighbours at a very 

 moderate price. To the corroboration of 



this 



