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they find of these troublesome weeds. If any still remain, 

 you cannot get them up from the bottom without digging 

 up your plants ; you should have a long knife, therefore, 

 and cut off their tap roots to as great a depth as possible. 

 This done a couple of times, will make them very feeble 

 for the future, and will at any rate rid your plants of their 

 company for the summer. 



116. A second weeding must take place about the latter 

 end of June; and a third about the middle of August; and, 

 at every weeding, treat the weeds exactly as the Duke of 

 Wellington has just now (February, 1828) treated the 

 faction called the Whigs. 



117. In the month of October, your plants, supposing 

 your ground to be pretty good, and your management to 

 have been as I have directed, will be from five to seven 

 inches high; and there would be, if sown as thickly as 

 they might be sown, forty thousand plants upon one single 

 square rod of ground ; but, supposing there to be but ten 

 thousand, you get a hundred thousand plants upon ten 

 rods of ground ; and that is enough to plant forty acres of 

 land, the plants as close together as it appears to be, in 

 such case, advisable to plant them. Is it not surprising then, 

 that any gentleman who is about to plant should decline to 

 take the pains, the very small pains, the very trifling ex- 

 pense necessary to secure to him such a stock of plants ? 

 Ash seeds are to be gotten every where in the proper 

 season. Any great country girl would get a sack of these 

 seeds with nearly as great ease, and with much greater 

 safety to herself, than she would fill the sack with the tear- 

 ings of a hedge. The seeds for ten rod of ground could 

 not, to any gentleman in the country, cost above a shilling; 

 another shilling would mix the seeds with sand; five shillings 



