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maggoty, pull them up ; as otherwife the 

 whole will be quickly affected. Neither 

 fhould the crop remain in the ground af- 

 ter the leaves begin to decay, but fhould 

 be taken up, gradually dried in an open 

 fhed, &c. and afterwards ftored in manner 

 of onions. 



SECTION XXIII. 



SPINAGE. 



FOR the Summer crops, all foils will 

 anfwer; but for the Winter, light 

 rich loam, and a dry fituation are fitter!. 

 Manure is feldom applied, except for the 

 fake of what is to follow ; yet, by a mode- 

 rate dunging, the Winter crops are much 

 benefited, and will grow more luxuriantly 

 in Spring. 



For the Spring and Summer crops, fow 

 of the rouiid-feeded 'kind, thinly, in drills 

 a foot apart, from the firfl of February to 

 the firft of Auguft, at intervals of ten days 

 each , and for the Winter, of the prickly 

 kind, any time from the middle of July to 



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