In this manner, an Acre of Land 

 will require about fix Pounds of 

 Seeds ; for when it is fown thicker, 

 if the Seed grows well, the Plants 

 will be fo dole as to fpoil each other 

 in a Year or two, the Heads of them 

 growing to a confiderable Size, as 

 will alio the Roots, provided they 

 have room. I have meafured the 

 Crown of one 'Root, which was in 

 my PoUehion, eighteen Inches Dia- 

 meter; from which I cut near four 

 hundred Shoots at one time, which 

 is an extraordinary Increafe ; ^and 

 this upon a poor dry gravelly Soil, 

 which had not been dung'd for many 

 Years; but the Root was at leafl ten 

 Years old ; fo that if this Crop be 

 well cultivated, it will continue 

 many Years, and be equally as good 

 as when it was firft fown : for the 

 Roots generally run down very deep 

 in the Ground, provided the Soil 

 be dry; and altho 1 they mould meet 

 an hard Gravel a Foot below the 

 Surface, yet their Roots would pe- 

 netrate it, and make their Way 

 downward, as I have experienced, 

 having taken up fome of them, 

 which were above a Yard in Length, 

 and had run above two Feet into a 

 Rock of Gravel, which was fo hard 

 as not to be loofened without Mat- 

 tocks, and Crows of Iron, and that 

 with much Difficulty. 



The Reafon for directing this 

 Seed to be fown in Rows is, that 

 the Plants may have room to grow; 

 and forthebetterltirring the Ground 

 between them, to deftroy the W eeds, 

 and encourage the Growth of the 

 Plants, which may be very eafily 

 effected with an Horfehoe ; ng plough, 

 juft after the cutting the Crop each 

 time, which will caufe them to fhoot 

 again in a very little time, and be 

 much ftronger than in fuch Places 

 w'here the Ground cannot be ftirred : 

 but you can't pretend to ufe a Plough 



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the firft Seafon amcngft it, until the 

 Plants have taken good Roots in the 

 Ground ; therefore when they firft 

 come up, the Ground between 

 mould be hoed : and if in doing 

 of this you cut up the Plants where 

 they are too thick, it will caufe the 

 remaining to be much ftronger. This 

 Hoeing lhoald be repeated two or 

 three times while the Plants are 

 young, according as the Weeds are 

 produced, obferving always to do it 

 in dry Weather, that the Weeds may 

 the better be deilroyed ; for if it be 

 done in moiit Weather, they will 

 root and grow again. 



With this Management, the Plants 

 will grow to the Height of two 

 Feet or more by the Beginning ofJu- 

 guj?, whtn the Flowers will begin to 

 appear ; at which time it mould be 

 cut, obferving to do it in a dry Sea- 

 fon, and keep it often turn'd, that it 

 may foon dry, and be carried off the 

 Ground ; for if it lie long upon the 

 Roots, it will prevent their mooting 

 again. After the Crop is taken off, 

 you fhould ltir the Ground between 

 the Rows with an Hoe, to kill the 

 W eeds,and Ioofen the Surface; which 

 will caufe the Plants to (hoot again- 

 in a fhort time, fo that by the Be- 

 ginning of September there will be 

 Shoots four or five Inches high ; 

 when you may turn in Sheep upon 

 it to feed it down, for it will not be 

 fit to cut again the fame Seafon ; nor 

 fhould the Shoots be fuftered to re- 

 main upon the Piants, which would 

 decay when the frofty Weather 

 comes on, and fall down upon the 

 Crown of the Roots, and prevent 

 their mooting early the fucceeding 

 Spring. 



So that the beft Way is to feed 

 it until November, when it will have 

 done (hooting for that Seafon : but 

 it fliould not be fed by large Cattle 

 the firH Year, becauie the Roots, 



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