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means be omitted to sow upon this ploughing, and 

 harrow in the seed ; for althdugh March is the 

 common season, yet the uncertainties of weather 

 are such, that the state of the land, in most cases, 

 requires a greater attention than the name of the 

 month ; and carrot seed, though the weather be 

 severe, will take no harm. It may be sown without 

 danger in November. In case March turns out 

 very wet, and your sowing is driven into Aprilj it 

 is twenty lo one that the crop will suffer. 



The preceding is the method pursued by some 

 ns, and with success ; but I must observe, 

 that the Suffolk system is <]uite different ; and as 

 the crop in that county abounds far more than 

 in any oihcr of the kingdom, there being, perhaps, 

 more carrots in it than in all the rest of Engl.ind 

 together, much attention is necessarily to be paid 

 to their ideas and practice ; and thnt is universally, 

 to sow nearly about the 2jth of March, and i>ot 

 -to plough till then. 



The fields designed for cabbages in April or 

 May, and ploughed in October on to the ridge, 

 should this month, if the weather will admit, re- 

 ceive an earlh, reversing the ridges, but not stirring 

 fiat. This will have good effects in pulverizing the 

 soil, which it may he supposed to want, as it con- 

 only of stubbles turned up in autumn. This 

 is a point that should be attended to ; for cabbages 

 are always to be considered as a fallow^ in which 



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