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§ II. 



$he Method of preparing the Earth into which 

 the Roots are to be tranjplanted. 



When the feed has been fown, the field 

 muft be prepared into which the roots are 

 to be tranfplanted. It is with thefe roots 

 as with all other plants, the more the 

 earth is manured, the more thoroughly it 

 is ploughed and prepared, the finer and 

 larger they become ; and the crop of leaves 

 is proportionally increafed and multiplied. 

 In a middling kind of land the roots pro- 

 duced do not weigh more than four or five 

 pounds, and they do not produce leaves 

 above four or five times in a good foil they 

 weigh from nine to ten pounds, and put 

 forth frefh leaves eight or nine times. 



In 1784, I planted fome, by way of ex- 

 periment, in a very middling foil, and the 

 fineft did not weigh more than five pounds. 

 In 1785, I caufed them to be planted in a 

 good corn field, but the land of which was 



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