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came up perfectly well, and the fruit was fo large and finely fla- 

 vour'd, that it might claim a preference in all relpedls to any that 

 grew in my garden. 



" I raifed the fame plants again in 1755 and 1756, in the fame 

 manner, and with the fame fuccefs as before. They have always 

 been larger, better tafled, and in every refpedl finer, than thofe of 

 my kitchen garden. Nothing could be more ftriking, than, in 1755, 

 a hot dry year, to fee thefe plants always green, and in great vigor, 

 thrive without any alteration; whilft thofe in gardens, which were 

 watered every day, droop'd during part of the day, and grew but 

 very flowly. 



" We may place the greater confidence in thefe experiments on 

 pot-herbs, as they have been cultivated in the fame manner for 

 feveral years, and always with the fame fuccefs. The beauty, 

 largenefs, and vigor of the plants, cannot be imputed to dung or 

 other manure, for none was ufed ; nor did they want watering, to 

 which I never had recourfe, but when any of them were tranfplant- 

 ed. It is therefore to the culture that their flourilhing growth muft 

 be afcribed : and this is the more remarkable, as it is well known, 

 that, in the common management of kitchen gardens, if the ground 

 was not to be dunged for feveral years, it would produce only poor 

 and flinted plants." 



M. de Chateau- vieux extended the new hufbandry to the culture 

 of the teazle, or fuller's thiflle, which grew to a furprifing height, 

 and produced an extraordinary number of the fineft and beft heads 

 that the fullers of that country had ever feen. 



This plant is of fuch importance to the woollen manufadory, in 

 which it is ufed for raifing the knap upon cloth, that we muft beg 

 leave to add here Mr. Miller's diredions for the culture of it. 



" It is propagated," fays he," by fowing the feeds in March, 

 *' upon a foil that has been well dried. About one peck of this 

 •* feed will fow an 'acre ; for the plants fliould have room to grow ; 

 " otherwife the heads will not be fo large, nor in fo great quantity. 

 " When the plants are come up, you muft hoe them in the fame 

 " manner as is praftifed for turneps, cutting down all the weeds, 

 " and fingling out the plants to about fix or eight inches diftance j 

 ** and as the plants advance, and the weeds begin to grow again, 

 " you muft hoe them a fecond time, cutting out the plants to a 

 *' wider diftance ; for they ftiould be, at laft, left at leaft a foot 

 " afunderj and you fhould be particularly careful to clear them 



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