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to be fet out fingly, and are liable to be 

 drawn up by weeds ; thereby acquiring a 

 flender upright tendency ; whereas their na- 

 tural growth, in their infant-flate, is procum- 

 bent, fpreading their firft leaves on the ground, 

 and taking the form of a rofe. 



If the hoe be put in too foon, the plants 

 which are fet out are liable to be buried, and 

 their tender rootlings difturbed, in the act of 

 fetting out the neighbouring plants. 



The critical Hate obferved by judicious 

 hufbandmen, is, when the plants, as they lie 

 fpread upon the ground, are about the fize 

 of the palm of the hand : if, however, feed- 

 weeds be numerous and luxuriant, they ouf>-ht 

 to be checked before the turnep-plants arrive 

 at that fize ; left, by being drawn up tall and 

 ilender, they Ihould acquire a weak fickly 

 habit. 



2. The method pr hoeing turneps is diffi- 

 cult tp defcribe : nothing but pradtice can 

 teach it: — and, like other manual arts, it 

 ought to be learnt in youth. 



A boy in Norfolk, by the time he is the, 

 height of a hoe, begins to make ufe of one ; 

 f onfequently, every man who has been bred to 



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