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quire a hand-hoeing this month. It should be 

 given only to the tops of the ridges, about eight or 

 nine inches around the plants : the weeds should 

 be cut up clean, and loose moulds drawn to the 

 stems of the plants. In about ten days after, the 

 first horse- hoeing should be given, turning a fur- 

 row from the plants, and throwing up a ridge of 

 earth in the middle of each interval. This opera- 

 tion will be of great use : it lets the atmosphere 

 into the ridges on which the plants stand, and con- 

 sequently sweetens and ameliorates the soil ; and it 

 kills the weeds that grow on the sides of the 

 ridges much cheaper than it can be done by the 

 hand-hoe : it likewise pulverizes the earth taken 

 away, and brings it into fine order for returning 

 to the plants in June, when they will strike into it, 

 and thrive the more. 



The land designed to be planted in June, should 

 this month receive an earth to throw it on to what- 

 ever sized ridges you intend to plant on. This must 

 not be omitted ; because the beginning of the next 

 month may be taken up in carting on the manure. 

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The common culture of this plant, every one 

 knows, is that of sowing the seed on a seed-bed, 

 and transplanting where to remain ; but a much 

 superior method was that practised by the late 

 .Mr. Ixikewell, of drilling the seed at once the be- 

 ginning of this month where the crop was to re- 

 main. This saves the ex pence of transplanting ; 



but 



