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are only two feet, and contain but two 

 rows, with alleys alfo of two feet. This 

 method is preferable to the former. But 

 the moft approved, is, to drill in the feed 

 where it is to remain, in flngle rows, a yard 

 apart and an inch deep; fowing pretty 

 thick, in order to infure a crop * : ever} 

 four feet apart for the rows would not be 

 too much. 



I have feen an inftance where a piece of 

 ground was equally trenched and manured ; 

 the one-half of it was drilled at one yard, 

 and the other at two apart 3 that which 

 flood at two yards, as I was allured by the 

 proprietor, produced a greater quantity of 

 grafs on the fame quantity of ground than 

 the other, and the buds were much larger. 



That Afparagus, which is fown where it 

 is to remain, will be ftronger, againft the 

 third year, than that which is tranfplanted, 

 I have myielf proved in more than one in- 

 ftance 3 and would therefore advife this 

 practice in preference to the other. 



If the fpring proves dry after fowing, 



the rows fhould be frequently refrefhed 



Y 4 with 



* The middle of March or firft of April, is the proper: 

 feafon for fowing. 



