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185. " What put me upon trying this me- 

 " thod was an observation of two lands, or 

 " ridges (See Plate II. Fig. 2.) drilled with 

 " Turnijis in rows, a foot asunder, and very 

 " even in them ; the ground, at both ends and one 

 " side, was hard and unploughed. The Turnifis 

 *' not being hped were very poor, small, and 

 " yellow, except the three outside rows, bed 

 ** which stood next to the land (or Ridge) 9 

 " which land, being ploughed and harrowed, at 

 " the time the land A ought to have been hoed, 

 " gavea dark flourishing colour to these three 

 " rows ; and the Turnips in the row d, which 

 41 stood farthest off from the new ploughed land 

 ** y received ao much benefit from it, as to grow 

 " twice as big as any of the more distant rows. 

 " The row c being a foot nearer to the new 

 ** ploughed land, became twice as large as those 

 " in d y but the row #, which was next to the land 

 " E) grew much larger yet. 1? is a piece of hard 

 " whole ground, oi about two perch in length, and 

 " about two or three foot broad, lying betwixt 

 *' those two lands, which had not been ploughed 

 " that year ; it was remarkable that, during the 

 " length f this interjacent hard ground, the rows 

 " b c d were as smail and yellow as any in the 

 *' land. The Turnips in the row d, about three 

 " foot distant from the land E, receiving a double 

 " increase, proves they had as much nourishment 

 " from the land E as from the land A, wherein 

 " they stood, which nourishment was brought 

 " by less than half the number of roots of each of 

 " these Turnifis. In their own land they must 

 " have extended a yard all round, else they could 

 "' not have reached the land , wherein it is 



