86 Of T u r n e p s. Chap. VIIL 



double the Expence in fetting out ; and there will be 

 lefs Earth ho'd by the Breadth of fourteen Inches of 

 the deepeft Part of the Ridge, and confequently the 

 Land will be the lefs improv'd for the next Crop. 

 We need not to be very exact, in the Number (I) of 

 Diftance (m) we fet them out at % we contrive to leave 

 the Mafter-turneps (when there is much Difference 

 in them), and fpare fuch when near one another, and 

 leave the more Space before and behind them •, but 

 if they be Three Mafter-turneps too near together, 

 we take out the middlemoft. 



Turneps that were fo thick as to touch one another 

 when half-grown, by means of well Hoeing their wide 

 Intervals, have afterwards grown to a good Bignefs, 

 and by thrufting againft one another became oval, 

 jnftead of round. 



'Tis beneficial to hoe Turneps (efpecially the firfl 

 Time) alternately; viz. to hoe every other Interval, 

 and throw the Earth back again before we hoe the 

 other Intervals ; for by this Means the Turneps are 

 kept from being (n) flinted : 'Tis better to have 

 Nonrifhment given them moderately at twice, than 

 to have it all once, and be twice as long before a 

 Repetition (o). 



(I) The lead Number will be the largeft Turneps ; yet we 

 ihould have a competent Stock, which I think is not lefs than 

 Thirty on a fquare Perch. 



(m) The Diftance need not to be regular ; for when a Turnep 

 has Six Inches of Room on one Side, and Eighteen Inches on 

 the other Side, 'tis almoft as well as if there was one Foot on each 

 Side : tho 1 then it would be equally difiant from the Two Tur- 

 neps betwixt which it flood. 



(n) Becaufe this alternate Hoeing doth not at all endanger the 

 Roots by being dried by the Sun ; for whilft one half of the Roots 

 have Moiflure, 'tis fufhcient ; the other Half will be fupplied from 

 thofe ; fo that they will foon take hold of the Earth again after 

 being moved by the Hoe. 



(o) Sometimes, when Turneps are planted late, this alternate 

 Hoeing fuffices without any Repetition ; but when they are 

 planted early, 'twill be necefTary to hoe them again ; efpecially 

 if Weeds appear. 



Tho? 



