HEMP. !!{) 



latter plant a tolerably good linen may be 

 made. 



It will generally be observed, that nettles 

 occupy a good soil, which might be advan- 

 tageously metamorphosed into plots and 

 banks of hemp. 



A Sussex manufacturer, who wrote on this 

 article in the Annals of Agriculture, informs 

 us, that hemp may be raised for many years 

 successively on the same ground, provided it 

 be well manured. The quantity of seed re- 

 quired to sow an acre of ground, varies from 

 nine to twelve pecks, according to the nature 

 of the soil ; the quality of the hemp also 

 differs with the soil. The common height 

 of the plant is from five to six feet. Mr. 

 Arthur Young informs us, that in his tour 

 through Catalonia in Spain, he saw extraor- 

 dinary crops of hemp, where the land was 

 well watered, and that these plants were 

 seven feet high. The hemp that is culti- 

 vated near Bischwiller, in Alsace, is often 

 more than twelve feet high, and upwards of 

 three inches in circumference. 



From the class in which this plant is ar- 

 ranged in botany, it will be observed, that 

 the same seeds produce both male and fe- 

 male plants promiscuously : this is one of 



