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teen inches from each other. A root fhould 

 be put in every hole, placed in fuch a 

 manner, that the tops may be feen a little 

 way out of the earth. This is an eafy pre- 

 caution, but very erTential, and without 

 which they will never fucceed well , thefe 

 plants take root in twenty-four hours 3 and 

 a man, who is a little accuilomed to it 3 may 

 plant 1S00 or 2000 in a day. * 



§ IV. The 



* Many perfons having found it difficult to procure 

 feeds of the Root of Scarcity, from one end of the 

 kingdom to the other, they have folicited me to render 

 it eafy to get them at Paris for the following year. I 

 have been happy enough to prevail on M. de la Planche, 

 a refpectable apothecary, in the Rue du Route, at Paris, 

 to furnilh his mop with a quantity of them, which I 

 have procured for him. He fells them at four litres a 

 pound ; the prodigious quantity of thefe feeds that have 

 been called for, having rendered them fcarce and dear. 



Thofe perfons, who are defirous of having any for 

 the following year, are requefted to write to M. de la 

 Planche in the month of November, in order to deter- 

 mine what quantity it will be neceffary to provide. It 

 is only towards that time that the price can be fixed* 

 which varies according to the nature of the harveft. 

 Perfons fending orders are requefted to fend their ad- 



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