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fown, thin any kind of culinary vegetable is ; 

 and confequently, by requiring from the foil the 

 fame fort of food, mud tend to exhauft the land 

 more than any crop of fuch vegetables is likely to 

 do : Befides, the fucculent and fpreading items 

 and leaves of thefe lafl are very ufeful in keeping 

 the furface moid and foft. Planting of nuriery 

 articles, therefore, between the lines of patches, 

 fhould only be reforted to in cafes of neceffity. 



Some writers have advifed to fow the fpnces 

 clofe up with crops of grain. Such a plan mufi 

 receive eur decided negative ; becaufe the feed- 

 ling trees would thereby be overfhadowed, if not 

 deilroyed. Neither, in this cafe, can the ground 

 around the patches be wrought with the hoe: 

 the want of which operation mufl tend very much 

 to diminim their vigour. Indeed, unlefs the crop 

 to be fown can keep its place fecurely, fo as not 

 to injure the plants by overhanging them, it 

 fhould not be thought of. Long-pod, Windfor, 

 or fome other of the (tout-growing kinds of beans, 

 are the only grain crops that we would ever wifh 

 to fee fown among young copfes ; and even they 

 fhould never be fown nearer the rows of the 

 coppice plants than twenty inches or two feet. If 

 fuch grounds are to be cropped with beans, they 

 fhould be planted at the above diilances from 

 the rows of trees ; and two rows will be quite fuf- 

 ficient for a fpace, 



FEN. 



