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crops, and which can bed be fpared for vegetable 

 crops, to reft and prepare them for future crops 

 of nurfery* 



DESTROYING WEEDS. 



This is now become a very important work* 

 The firft crop of weeds in the feafon is always the 

 moft vigorous ; they therefore mould be got down 

 as foon as poflible. Weeds in the nurfery fliould 

 only be allowed te appear 9 and they fliould be feen 

 no more. Even where no weeds appear, it is of 

 great ufe to hoe the ground. By every new hoe- 

 ing, a new furface is expofed to the action of the 

 atrnofphere. This furface becomes faturated with 

 certain fertilizing powers of the air, and fo is en- 

 abled greatly to benefit the growth of the plants* 

 Indeed, more depends upon renewing the furface 

 among plants, than upon the manure given to the 

 ground previous to fowing or planting. "Who- 

 ever therefore is fcarce of dung, or who wifhes to 

 make a little of it go a great way, will find himfelf 

 bed aided by frequently hoeing or renewing the 

 furface among his crop. 



One thing, however, refpe&ing hoeing, requires 

 to be noticed here ; and that is, never to ufe the 

 push-koe, or Dutch hoe, when the object is the 

 enriching of the soil ; becaufe it cannot be made 

 to penetrate into the foil fufficiently deep j and it 



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