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There are men, whofe good fenfe and dif- 

 cernment have fhewn this matter to them in 

 its true light, and who are fully aware that the 

 *' proof" of their turncp-crop depends more 

 on its " tightnefs" than on the fize of the plant. 

 And it is the practice of thefe men I wifh to 

 hold out in llriking colours, in order that it 

 may become the general prad:ice of the Dif- 

 tridl ; as well as to endeavour to do away a per- 

 nicious idea which has gone abroad refpefling 

 this part of the culture of turneps, in Nor- 

 folk ; where good farmers do not fuffeu their 

 turncps to be fet out fifteen or eighteen inches 

 apart! but rather from ten to fourteen, ac- 

 cordingly as circumftances point out ; and ac- 

 cording to the lituation of the plants with fe- 

 jpeA to each other. 



Thus, if tlu-ee plants fland in a line, the 

 two outer ones fourteen inches afunder, the 

 intermediaic one is, of courfe, taken out : 

 but fliould two healthy plants ftand in a wdde 

 vacancy, ihoufands of which vacancies gene- 

 rally occur in every piece of turneps, they are 

 both of them fuffered to remain, though they 

 ftand not more than fix or eight inches from 

 each other : for^ when the tops have room to 



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