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hde them, for fear the plough fliould damage feveral flalks of 

 wheat which grew on the next bed, and were bent, but not 

 lodged. 



" Thefe cabbages v.'ere never watered, except once, which was at 

 the time of planting them : and yet they were always crifp and 

 firm, even in the hotteft days. By this eafy and expeditious cul- 

 ture, they attained all the perfection that could be wiOied ; and fur- 

 palled thofe of the kitchen garden, as much in goodnefs, as they 

 did in bulk. Moft of them weighed between 15 and 18 pounds, 

 and the fmalleft between eight and ten. The weight of all the plants 

 which grew on this bed, was upwards of 840 pounds. 



" Toward the end of autunui, I prepared five other beds, to be 

 fown in the fpring, in the fame field as that of the cabbages, to 

 which they lay in right angles. Tlie form of this fpot did not ad- 

 mit of making the beds more than 40 feet long. This fpace being 

 too fmall to ufe the plough in, it was dug with the fpade, and 

 made into beds the latter end of November. The middle of the beds 

 was raifed pretty high, and a deep furrow parted them. The bi^eadth 

 from furrow to furrow was fix feet. No dung was ufed. 



" The winter's froft made the mould quite loofe and fine. I found 

 it in fo good condition, that I thought it needlefs to give it another 

 digging before I fowed it ; which is very remarkable : for as thefe 

 beds were not fown till the 4th of May, the ground had confequently 

 not been flirred for upwards of five months. 



" I only made a fliallow furrow in the middle of each bed, in one 

 of which I fowed beet, in two others carrots, and in the other two 

 fcorzoneras. The mould was in a due degree of moifture : the 

 plants came up very well : they were thinned wherever they grew 

 too thick, fo as to leave a diftance of 1 4 or 15 inches between the 

 beet roots, itvcn or eight inches between the carrots, and four or 

 five inclies between the fcorzoneras. None of thefe plants were 

 watered at all. 



" This fpot being, as I before faid, too fmall to admit the plough, 

 the alleys between thefe beds were fiirred by- hand, with a fpade, on 

 the 15th of June, 27th of July, and 6th of September. The leaves 

 of the plants were three or four times larger than thofe of the fame 

 kind of plants in the kitchen garden ; and though the rows were fix 

 feet afunder, the leaves of the carrots met in manv places, in the 

 middle of the furrows between the beds. 



" The. beet roots were dug up the 25th of Odlober. They were all 



nearly 



