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fpare no Pains to make it good, 

 being fure of a proportionable Price 

 for it. About Midfu?nmer they 

 plougk a third time, and between 

 every lixteen Feet and a half, or 

 Pole in Breadth, they leave a broad 

 Furrow or Trench, which ferves 

 both as a Boundary to the feveral 

 '' Parcels, when there are feveral Pro- 

 prietors to one Enclofure, and to 

 throw the Weeds in at the proper 

 Seaibn. 



To this Head likewife belongs 

 the Fencing of the Grounds, be- 

 caufe moil commonly, tho' not 

 always, that is done before they 

 plant. The Fences conlift of what 

 they call dead Hedges or Hurdles, 

 to keep out not- only Cattle of all 

 Sorts, but efpecially Hares, which 

 would otherwife feed on the Sdf- 

 jron Leaves during the Winter. 



About the Weather we need on- 

 ly obfcrve, that the hotteft Sum- 

 mers are certainly the beft, and 

 therewith if there be gentle Show- 

 ers from time to time, they can 

 hardly mifs of a plentiful rich Crop, 

 if the extreme Cold, Snow or Rain 

 of the foregoing Winter have not 

 , prejudic'd the Heads. 



The next general Part of the 

 Culture of Sajfiro7i is, planting or 

 fetting the Roots : The only In- 

 ftrument us'd for which, is a nar- 

 row Spade, commonly term'd a 

 Spit-fljovel. 



The Time of planting is com- 

 monly in the Month of July, a 

 httle fooner or later, according as 

 the W^eather anfwers. The Me- 

 thod is this: One Man with his 

 Spit-fhovel raifes between three and 

 four Inches of Earth, and throws 

 it before him about fix or more 

 Inches j two Perlbns, generally 

 Women, following with Heads, 

 place them in the fartheft Edge of 

 the Trench he m.^kes, at thre^ 



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Inches Diftance from each other, 

 or thereabouts : As foon as the 

 Digger or Spitter has gone once 

 the Breadth of the Ridge, he be- 

 gins again at the other Side, and 

 digging, as before, covers the 

 Roots laft fet, and makes the fame 

 Room for the Setters to place a 

 new Row at the fame Diftance 

 from the firft that they are from 

 one another : Thus they go on 

 till a whole Ridge, containing com- 

 monly one Rod, is planted j and 

 the only Nicety in digging is, to 

 leave feme Part of the firft Stratum 

 of Earth untouch'd to lie under the 

 Roots ■■) and in fetting, to place the 

 Roots diredly upon their Bot- 

 tom. 



What fort of Roots is to be 

 preferr'd, fliall be fliewn under the 

 fourth Head ; but it muft be ob- 

 ferv'd in this Place, that formerly, 

 when Roots were very dear, they 

 did not plant them fb thick as they 

 do now J and that they have always 

 fome Regard to the Size of the 

 Roots, placing the largeft at a 

 greater Diftance than the fmall 

 ones. 



The Quantity of Roots planted 

 in an Acre is generally about lixteen 

 Quarters, or one hundred twenty- 

 eight Bufhels, v/hich, according 

 to the Diftances left between them, 

 as before alfign'd,- and luppofmg 

 all to be an Inch in Diameter one 

 with another, ought to amount to 

 192,040 in Num':er. 



From the Time that the Roots 

 are planted till about the Begin- 

 ning of September, or fometimes 

 later, there is no more Labour a- 

 bout them ; but as they then begin 

 to fpire, and arc ready to fnew 

 themfelves above-ground, which is 

 known by digging a few out of 

 thf Earth, he Ground muft- be 

 carefully jard with a ft^arp Hoe, 



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