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cultivated commons as, in their natu- 

 ral ftate, produce thorns and furze. 



The ground is to be prepared exadly 

 in the lame manner as for turnips, which 

 I have particularly defcribed in treating 

 of that plant. If the ground it is fowed 

 upon be frefli broken up, it fliould be 

 iirft made perfedlly clean; but if it be 

 fown upon land which has been before 

 in a courfe of tillage ; wheat, barley, or 

 oat-ftubble is the befl to make choice 

 of; and the firfl ploughing fhould be 

 early in the autumn. If it follow wheat, 

 then barley, or oats, with grafs feeds, 

 Hiould follow the cole-feed; but if it 

 follow oats, or barley, then wheat 

 fhould fucceed it; which delights to 

 grow after it better than after any 

 other crop, and is always of the befl 

 quality ; and as the cole-feed will be 

 reaped fo early as July, the ground will 

 K 3 admit. 



