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confiderably ; but the medium price may 

 be confidered from fifteen to twenty 

 fhillings a hundred, at the flub, without 

 reckoning their carriage. 



When the poles are brought to the 

 ground, they fliould be unloaded at the 

 outfides of the plantation, and carried 

 upon men's fhoulders to the places of 

 poling. 



No muck, or compofl, is neceiTary 

 for the fecond year ; but the ground 

 muft be dug in the autumn, in the fame 

 manner as it was the firil y; ar. In the 

 month of March every year, after the 

 firft year's planting, the hills mufl be 

 opened, and the plants dreffed, by cut- 

 ting oft the old, lafl year's bearing- ftalks 

 within two joints of the root ; and if 

 any of the plants have failed, or are 

 found in a fickly flate, others muil be 

 fubftituted in their ftead. In doing of 



which 



