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the preceding fpring ; and having previoufly 

 dunged it, to plant it with potatoes. Du- 

 ring fummer the land is repeatedly cleaned 

 with the hoe ; in autumn, the potatoes be- 

 ing removed, the entire (lip is gathered into 

 a ridge with the plow ; and the enfuing 

 fpring the quick is planted, nurfery-wife, in 

 a trench run along the middle of the ridge. 

 The fuccefs of this method has proved equal 

 to what might be expected from manage- 

 ment To obvioufly judicious. 



Another new idea, which has been (Iruck 

 out and carried into pradiee by the fame per- 

 fon, is that of SORTING hedgewood plants : 

 not according to the thicknefs of their ftems^ 

 or the fize of their tops, but agreeably to the 

 llrcngth of their roots. When the plants 

 are put in, indifcriminately, the fcrong fooit 

 outgrow and overpower thofe which arc 

 weaker. But plants which are judiciouily 

 forted, rife together amicably, without de- 

 ftroying each other. BefideSj in doing this^ 

 many worthlefs plants are thrown afide, and 

 thofe which arc weak may be referved for 

 fuitablc fituations) while the ftrongeft are 



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