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harrow. When the plants arc up, hoe them in the same manner 

 as practised for turnips, cutting down all the weeds and singling 

 out the plants to about six or eight inches distance; as they 

 advance, and the weeds begin to grow again, hoe them a second 

 time, cutting out the plants to about a foot asunder. Keep them 

 free from weeds during the summer and autumn, and the second 

 year after sowing the plauts will shoot up stalks with heads, which 

 will be fit for collecting about the time before mentioned; observ- 

 ing, that they are to be collected as they turn brown and ripen, and 

 not all at once. 



They may also be cultivated by sowing the seeds in April, in a 

 seed-bed, pretty thick, where they are to be kept free from weeds, 

 and in September or March following, planted into the ploughed 

 field, being previously well harrowed and prepared, where they 

 are to be set regularly in lines, at about a foot asunder every way. 

 Soon after they will shoot up, and, the autumn following, produce 

 their heads. This article is indispensable where manufactories of 

 cloth are carried on. 



Woad, Weld, or Dyer's Weed. 



The Reseda luteola, or dyer's-weed, is used for dyeing all sorts 

 of bright yellows and lemon colours; and is a profitable article to 

 cultivate for the use of dyers. Its favourite soil is a tolerably rich, 

 sandy ground, where it will grow to great perfection. The seed 

 should be sown in April, at the rate of two quarts to an acre; when 

 the plants are up they must be set out with a hoe, like turnips, 

 to the distance of six inches, plant from plant, and kept free from 

 weeds during the season. The May following they will shoot, and, 

 if the soil be good, grow three feet high; and in June, when in full 

 floiver, the plants are to be pulled up, and set in small handfuls to 

 dry in the field; when dry enough they may be tied in bundles and 

 housed, being careful to put them up loosely, that the air may pass 

 between, to prevent fermentation. A small patch may be left for 

 seed, which is not to be pulled up till perfectly ripe. Some people 

 sow weld with oats and barley, as they do clover seed; and after 

 these crops are oft', weed them as well as possible, suffering no 

 cattle to enter the field till the June twelve months after sowing, 

 when the weld is pulled and dried as before. 



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Planting Fruit Trees. 



Such fruit trees as are not yet burst into leaf may be trans- 

 planted in the early part of the month, but any that are cither in 

 leaf or flower will suffer considerably by such unseasonable renin- 



