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reap the roots, and may clofely cut off all 

 the leaves. This operation may be per- 

 formed the evening before, or even fome 

 days before the harveft. In the evening all 

 the roots fhould be collected together if 

 they have been well aired, they may be put 

 under cover in a cellar, or in any other dry 

 place, where they are not in danger of being 

 hurt by the froft if there is no reafon to be 

 apprehenfive of rain, they may be left in the 

 field in which they were gathered during the 

 night, and removed the next day to the place 

 in which they are to be depofited. If the 

 weather will permit them to be left in the air 

 two or three days, it will be advantageous to 

 them. They fhould not be handled roughly, 

 either in removing them, or in difcharging 

 them into the cellar, or other place where they 

 are to be kept j for as they have a very thin 

 rind, they are eafily bruifed, and then they 

 do not keep fo well. 



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