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man of Tmall fortune, from the original 

 want of 2 or 300 /. Vegetables of this 

 nature may indubitably be carried to a yaft 

 profit, but it is impoffible to be done with- 

 out great expence; and any -abatement in 

 that expence muft be attended with vafl 

 dedudions in the profit. Lucerne has 

 been tried in almofl every county in Eng- 

 land, and has failed In more than it has 

 fucceeded : And why ? Not from any fault 

 or want of capability in the plant, but for 

 want of culture. Writers of hufbandry 

 have, in treating of this plant, very juftly 

 expatiated on the neceffity of keeping it 

 entirely free from weeds ; and, for a year 

 or fo, fome gentlemen may have done it, 

 but the novelty of the practice wearing off, 

 their attention has declined, and the culture 

 as furely come to nothing. No fad: is 

 clearer, than that gardeners cultivate onions 

 to a certain fize, and much advantage. 

 Suppofe a perfon, in imitating them, fol- 

 lows them only in the preparation of their 

 ground and the fpreading their feed, but 

 leaves out the hoeing, the confequence cer- 

 tainly will be the total failure of the crop^ 

 whereby all the expence he has allowed, is 



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