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trenches /liould be eighteen feet apart, 

 three feet deep, two feet and an half 

 wide on the top, and one foot wide at 

 the bottom j and all the fluff, which 

 comes out of thefe trenches, fhould be 

 thrown upon the tops of the beds, which 

 will help to raife them. At the fame 

 time a rov/ of holes fliould be opened in 

 each bed, at about eighteen feet apart, 

 eighteen inches deep, and three feet dia- 

 meter on the tops. This fhould be 

 done early in the winter, that the frof| , 

 may get into the ground, and chailen it. 

 Early in February, the furface of the 

 beds fhould be chopped with fpades, 

 and made as fine as pofTible. And about 

 the latter end of the fame month, ijohite 

 poplar, or fome other fuitable trees, 

 ihould be planted in the before-men- 

 tioned holes, and all the intermediate 

 fpaces upon the beds fhould be filled 



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