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latter end of OEiobeYy and in mild fea- 

 fons later, if the frofts don t come fo 

 foon to defooy them. 



The firft fowing is to be towards the Different 

 middle or latter end of OBober, under ^"^^^-^ 

 fome warm South wall, where they may 

 be fheltcr'd in cafe of fevere frofts 5 great 

 is the difappointment of fowing that firft 

 crop, which is the rcafon why we do 

 all we can to preferve them. Some, 

 and amongft the reft Monf. T>e la §iuin- 

 tinyey advifes the fleeping them in wa- 

 ter for two or three days till they have 

 fprouted, to make them com.e up the 

 fooncr ; but this does not appear to 

 be fo neceflary as at other times when 

 great hafte is required, as at the latter 

 part of the fumm.er, when we are, by 

 fome means or other, obliged to fow 

 late, then fteeping is neceftary, to acce- 

 lerate theie growth 5 but the fteeping of 

 them at fo late a feafon, and when the 

 ground is by nature apt to be too wet 

 and moift of it felf, is not agreeable to 

 that experience I have had in planting : 

 But this I leave to the trial of others 

 who pafs away much time in curiofitiea 

 ^nd trials of this nature. 



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