212. TREATISE ON 



afunder the firft two drills, and double that diftance between 

 them and every following two, being careful they are no deeper 

 covered than direcfted for thefe in beds ; let the ground be kept 

 very clean and mellow about them till the fucceeding fpring, and 

 draw them, where too thick, as formerly ; after which, cut the re- 

 mainder with a fpade, about five or iix inches -below ground, and 

 let them remain another year, having pointed over the ground, 

 between the lines, 



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Thx^t this pradlice is no vague opinion, but much, preferable 

 to crowding them in beds, carries the cleareft demonftration a- 

 longft with it, to every man of the leaft attention, who does not 

 choofe to {hut his eyes, and who will only look at thefe plants on 

 the edges of beds next the alleys, where he will univerfally j&nd 

 them of double the lize, and more abundant in roots than in the 

 middle of the beds. 



Notwithstanding the preceding directions, both for pre-- 

 paring and fowing the berries, are the bed, rules I know to pro- 

 cure ftrong well-grov/n plants, yet, when numbers only are de- 

 lired, without regard to faving time, or their future quality, 

 many more may be procured with lefs trouble and expence, by 

 fowing their feeds immediately after being ripe, or the following 

 fpring, of which the latter is the beft feafon, as, from that time, 

 the furface of the ground will be but one winter battered with 

 the ftorms, in place of two. Thefe feeds may be covered at fow^ 

 ing, double the depth of thofe that are to appear the firft feafon. 

 In autumn, rake from the beds all moffy corrupted particles, 

 and, in the following fpring, before the vegetation is brifli, re- 

 duce the covering with a fliort-teeth'd rake to, half an inch. 



