T R E A T I S E on 



proteil them from froft and wet. This will prepare the feeds 

 for vegetation, and difappoint the mice, who generally have a 

 large fliare of them when early fown. 



In the beginning of March, fow them thin in fhallow drills^ 

 about eighteen inches afunder; and if the feafon is dry, and 

 water at no great diftance, give them frequent but moderate wa- 

 terings, from their beginning to appear above ground, till the 

 middle, of Augufl, which will much forward the growth of the 

 plants e 



In March, next feafon, with a fpade made very fliarp for the 

 purpofe, undermine the roots as they ftand in the drills, and cut 

 them over between four and five inches under ground. 



The following autumn, or fpring, you may either raife the 

 whole, or give them another cutting below ground, when gently 

 railing fuch as are too thick, leave the remainder, at proper di- 

 ftances, to ftand another feafon. This manner of cutting the 

 roots dexteroufly, has, in a ^reat meafm'e, the fame effect as tr-anf- 

 planting. 



Those you have raifed, after fmoothing the bruifed and bro- 

 ken roots, and cut away fome of the fmall hairy fibres, muft be 

 planted in lines two feet afimder, and nine or ten inches in the 

 line ; and if the foil is good, and the plants have grown vigo- 

 rouily, they fliould remain here only two years, but in poor land 

 they may continue three. 



Those left in the drills where fown, are, next autumn, or 

 fpring, to be treated as thefe. 



