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On the Cultivation 



the rows; having completed planting the first row, remove your 

 line eighteen inches, [b,] and plant as before. If the bed is 



10 ft. 



only four feet it is completed, so far as it regards the planting: 

 the crowns of the plants will be covered with about two inches. 

 If the bed is eight feet wide, (fig. 2,) you will remove the 



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line thirty inches, (c,) and plant a row; and again eighteen inch- 

 es, (d,) which last row will complete a double bed, with an alley 

 of thirty inches (c,) in the middle, and sufficiently wide for you 

 to go up the centre, and cut the two inner rows, without treading 

 on the plants. The beds can be made of any length, to suit the 

 •convenience of cultivators. 



After the planting is finished, you will smooth the whole over 

 with a rake, and throw out a small quantity of the soil out of the 

 centre of the bed, (which will form a sub-alley,) upon the beds 

 vight and left; and with the back of a rake round off the two 

 divisions of the bed so as to give each a gentle slope from the 

 centue to each alley. In the autumn the beds will have settled 



