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clofe and hard, and in which they made their 

 way into the earth with fome difficulty : they 

 weighed, however, from feven to ten pounds. 

 In a light, fandy, and rich foil, they grew 

 ftill larger: fome of them weighed four-' 

 teen, and even fixteen pounds. 



OBSERVATION. 



Although the moft favourable feafon, for 

 fowing the feed of the Root of Scarcity, is 

 from the month of February to the middle 

 of April, it is neverthelefs advantageous to 

 fow fome every month, even till June; as by 

 that means there will always be plants fit 

 for tranfplanting : and wherever there is a 

 void place, either in gardens, or in fields, 

 there they may be planted. In 1784, the 

 fly having four times deftroyed the turnips 

 that I had fown, I fupplied their place with 

 Roots of Scarcity; it was in the month of 

 Auguft, and I neverthelefs gathered the 

 leaves three times, and the roots weighed 

 from three to four pounds. In hemp fields, 

 after the crop of hemp has been gathered in, 



the 



