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week in August will do: upon fen and peat soilg 

 and bogs, and black peaty low grounds, it thrives 

 greatly, and especially on pared and burnt land, 

 which is the best preparation for it. In many respects 

 the culture is the same as for turnips, only double 

 the quantity of seed: two quarts an acre; but 

 some sow three; and I have heard of a gallon being 

 used, 



RAPE FOR SEED. 



The Flemish culture much deserves attention. 

 They sow in a seed-bed for transplantation ; setting 

 it out on an oat- stubble, after one ploughing. 

 This is so great and striking an improvement of our 

 culture of the same plant, that it merits the utmost 

 attention ; for saving a whole year is an object of 

 the first consequence. The transplanting is not 

 performed till October, and lasts all November, if 

 no frost ; and at such a season there is no danger 

 of the plants not succeeding : earlier would how- 

 ever, surely be better, to enable them to be stronger 

 rooted, to withstand the frosts, which often destroy 

 them ; but the object of the Flemings is not to give 

 their attention to this business till every thing that 

 concerns wheat- sowing is over. The plants are large, 

 and two feet long; a man makes the holes with a 

 large dibble, like the potatoe one used on the 

 Essex side of London, and men and women fix the 

 plants, at 18 inches by 10 inches: some at a foot 

 square, for which they are paid nine liv. per manco 

 of land* The culture is so common all the way 



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