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Their foil is a rich black fand two or 

 three feet deep. Carrots they fow about 

 new Lady Day, upon ground dug one fpit 

 deep, hoe them very carefully three times ; 

 they do it by the day, and the three coft 

 them from 20 to 30 s. an acre, as the crop 

 happens to be ; they fet them out about 

 eight or ten inches from plant to plant ; 

 and get, on a medium, 200 bufhels upon 

 an acre. I drew feveral roots and found 

 them from one foot to 18 inches long. 

 Parfnips they cultivate exactly in the fame 

 manner, but the product never equals that 

 of carrots, by forty or fifty bufhels. This 

 point of comparison deferves attention, 

 for parfnips have been more than once 

 recommended as fuperior to carrots ; but 

 I apprehend they never will be found even 

 equal. The prices of carrots vary from 1 s. 

 to 4 s. a bufhel, but the firft is very low. 

 Potatoes they plant at the fame time ; 20 

 bufhels plant an acre, at the diftance of 

 about one foot every way; they hoe them 

 three times, but not at all before they come 

 up, which is praelifed in Effex about Jlford, 



in the moft inimitable manner, and the round- 

 nefs of the fly, with the lightnefs cf its claws, 

 are reprcfented in the bolder! and fulleft re- 

 lief. Jn a word it is truly admirable: In the 

 chancel of the church, is a very fine painted 

 window in good prefervation by the fame 

 m after. 



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