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as are near, but not at, or above, the flate of 

 p€rfe(ftion. In almoft every piece of turnep 

 there are plants in various ftates : much judg- 

 ment, therefore, is rcquifite in the choice of 

 plants, 



*fhe choice of foil and fituation for this pur- 

 pofe is pretty uniform ; a piece of good ground, 

 near a habitation, being generally pitched 

 upon. 



But tU method, of "planting is various : the 

 plants are generally fet in rows ; but the dif- 

 tance between the rows, and between plant and 

 plant in the rows, is uncertain. I have mea- 

 f\]red the rows.fixteen or eighteen inches apart, 

 a.nd the plants eight or ten iiiches afundcr. I 

 have alfo obferved them planted in two-foot 

 rows, and twelve inches in the rows. But the 

 practice of a man who indifputably ftands 

 near the head of his profeffion, is to plant 

 them in rows about two feet afunder, without 

 any intermediate fpa^e in the rows ; in which 

 the plants Hand in contiguity. 



^be 'vegetating-proeefs confifts in keeping the 

 intervals clean-hoed •, and when the feed verges 

 towards ripenefs, in preferving as much of it as 

 poffible from birds. If the plot be large, a boy 



