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turnep is fo favourite a vegetable, that hot-beds are 

 fornetimes made in February and March to forward it, 

 though thus cultivated, it can attain but to a very final! 

 fize. A bed of this fort muft be flight, and have a great 

 deal of air from the very fowing. A moderately lig^t 

 foil, with little dung, fuits turneps beft 7 and they 

 mould always have open ground that is well broke* 

 Mix the feed with a little fine earth, fow thin, trample 

 clofe, and rake lightly : It is a way with fome, to fow 

 one third old feed with the new, tor the greater cer- 

 tainty of a crop, the former fornetimes fucceeding when 

 the latter miiTes. Do not neglect to hoe the crops in 

 time, the early ones to five or fix inches, and the late 

 ones to eight or nine, though fome large forts fhould 

 have more diftance allowed them. - 



When the fly is obferved to attack young turneps„ 

 it will be proper to ftir the ground, and fow again im- 

 mediately, or to chufe another fpot for the purpofe. 



The Navew (which is much admired by fome, and 

 faid to be the moft nourifhing fort of turnep) fhould be 

 repeatedly fown from March to Augvjl, in a moift 

 ground ; but being a fmall ilender root, need not {land 

 wider than five cr fix inches. 



The c abb ace turnep is of tw r o kinds : onz 

 apples above ground, and the other in it. This vege- 

 table is fornetimes ufed young for the table; but it is- 

 chiefly cultivated for cattle. Sow it in May, or June, 

 for autumn uie, or in June, or July, for the J p ring: They 

 are very hardy. If fown in a garden, and pricked ouf # 

 they may be tranfplanted in fields, the firft moid 

 weather alter a crop of oats, or barley, at half a yard in 

 a poor, or near two feet in a rich foil; and if the 

 ground is foul, this culture gives a fine opportunity 

 to clean it, by repeated hoeing. 



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