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water so profusely that the ground was constantly kept wet ; 

 and before the plants were moulded up above the common 

 level of the ground, that to some extent round their roots, was 

 so perfectly saturated with moisture as to wholly preclude the 

 probability of the plants suffering by want of it during the 

 remaining part of the summer. My gardener had not raised 

 his plants at the usual and proper season in the last spring, 

 the seeds not having been sown till nearly the end of April ; 

 but nevertheless the plants had acquired in the middle of 

 September nearly the height of five feet. Not the quantity 

 only, but the quality also, of the produce, was greatly im- 

 proved by the abundant supply of water ; for it became, as 

 might have been inferred, more crisp and tender. The rows 

 were five feet distant from each other ; but those spaces were 

 not sufficiently wide to permit the plants to be moulded up to 

 the proper height ; and this circumstance, joined to the preter- 

 natural tenderness of the leaf stalks, caused those to be broken 

 and beaten down so much by the first windy weather, that my 

 crop, though very excellent, was not nearly as perfect as it 

 might have been. The plants also were placed within about 

 eight inches of each other in the rows ; and their foliage was so 

 injuriously crowded, that, I believe, I might have obtained as 

 large, if not a larger quantity of marketable produce, if only 

 half as many plants had been used. 



I have little more to add to the excellent directions* which 

 Mr. Judd has given in our Transactions for the culture of 

 this plant, except that, I believe, wide intervals between the 

 rows, and between the plants in the rows, when food and 

 water are abundantly given, will be found beneficial. I also 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Volume III. page 45. 



