330 THECULTUREOF Part III. 



" being deflroyed by the fly; for thefe never attack them, till they 

 " are ftinted in their growth". 



A gentleman, remarkable, among many other good qualities, for 

 fcveral excellent improvements which he has made in agriculture, tried 

 with fuccefs the following experiment, to prefei-ve turneps from the 

 fly, and the better to fecure their growth. He fowed the feed in a 

 nurfery, v/here there v/as leaft danger of the flugs or the fly, and 

 where they might eafily be watered in cafe of great drought, to make 

 them grow the quicker. They remained in tliis nurfery, till they 

 were large enough to be tranfplanted. By this means, he gained 

 fome weeks longer, to perfect his fallow, or give a tliorough plow- 

 ing to ground which had borne a crop that feafon. He tranfplanted 

 his turneps into the field, and by planting them regularly a foot a- 

 funder every way, greatly leflened the expence of hoeing ; their re- 

 gularity making it very eafy to dellroy the weeds from time to time, 

 as they appeared. If the feafon is dry, they may be carried from the 

 nurfery to the field, in vefiels full of very moift earth, as hereafter 

 advifed by M. de Chateau- vicux, in his direftions for tranfplant- 

 ing lucerne. 



CHAP. VII. 



Of FLAX and HE-MP: 



LAX and Hemp require a rich foil, well manured and 

 brought to a fine tilth, and kept as clear from weeds as poffibly 

 can be. Thefe plants are of infinite ufe, and may be cultivated to 

 very great advantage. 



When they are raifed in the fields after the ufual method, they 

 feldom grov/ very high, nor do their flalks branch out much : but 

 when they are allowed more room, they will rife much higher, and 

 branch out more, efpecially towards the top. The time for fowing 

 both thefe plants is the fpring.. Both of them are fo great impove- 

 rifhers of the ground, tliat it requires dunging after each year's crop-; 

 nor fhould either of them be fown two years together upon the fame 

 land, in the old hufbandry. The fenny parts of Lincolnfliire, and 

 of the ifle of Ely are the m_Dfl: remarkable places in England for 

 the culture of thefe plants. Betwixt two and three bufhels of feed 

 is the ufual allov/ance for an acre of land fown in broad-caft: but 

 Mr. Miller fays he has found it, from many repeated experiments, 

 much better to fow the feeds iu drills, and when the plants are come 

 2 up. 



