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where natural meadows and pastures are scarce, 

 sainfoin is so valuable, that this culture should be 

 attended to more than it is. It is a common no- 

 tion, that sainfoin will thrive only on lime-stone 

 lands or chalky soils. This idea excludes very ex- 

 tensive tracts in many parts of the kingdom, where 

 sainfoin would be a valuable acquisition ; but it is 

 much to be regretted, that we should not experi- 

 mentally know the exact soils on which it will and 

 will not thrive. General ideas, the result of ages 

 of practice, are admirable guides to tell us, what 

 will do ; but they are not satisfactory in informing 

 us what will not do. 



BURNET. 



This grass may be sown in May with buck-wheat, 

 with as great propriety as at any other season. 



CARROTS. 



If the carrot-crop was not hand-hoed last month, 

 it should be done this : and those crops which 

 were then hoed for the first time, will require an 

 harrowing early in this month, and a second hand- 

 hoeing about the last week. The harrowing will 

 not damage the young carrots, nor pull up one in 

 twenty ; but it will displace the weeds set again by 

 rain, and check the growth of those that arc got up 

 since. The other hand-hoeing should be performed 

 with nine-inch hoes ; and they should set out the 

 plants to the distance of twelve inches from each 

 other. Gardeners do not let them stand further 

 than eight or nine inches asunder ; but, when the 

 roots are designed to be of a large size, that is too 



little : 



