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troubled with weeds will find it greatly to their advantage to give 

 two or three good scarifyings during the course of: the summer. 



Cultivation may be proceeded with at any time when the soil is in 

 a fit state, except when late frosts are to be feared, or at flowering 

 time. The stirring of the soil reducing the temperature of the air, is 

 liable to be attended with unfavorable results at these times. 



