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harrow. When the plants are up, hoe them in the same manner 
as practised for turnips, cutting down all the weeds and singling 
out the plants to about six or eight inches distance; as they 
advance, and the weeds begin to grow again, hoe them a second 
time, cutting out the plants to about a foot asunder. Keep them 
free from weeds during the summer and autumn, and the second 
jear after sowing the plants will shoot up stalks with heads, which 
will be fit for collecting about the time before mentioned; observ- 
ing, that they are to be collected as they turn brown and ripen, and 
not all at once. 
They may also be cultivated by sowing the seeds in April, in a 
seed-bed, pretty thick, vvhere they are to be kept free from weeds, 
and in September or March following, planted into the ploughed 
field, being previously well harrowed and prepared, where they 
are to be set regularly in lines, at about a foot asunder every way. 
Soon after they will shoot up, and, the autumn following, produce 
their heads. This article is indispensable where manufactories of 
cloth are carried on. 
Woad, Weld, or Dyer''s Weed. 
The Reseda luteola, or dyer's-weed, is used for dyeing all sorts 
of bright yellows and lemon colours; and is a profitable article to 
cultivate lor the use of dyers. Its favourite soil is a tolerably rich, 
sandy ground, where it will grow to great perfection. The seed 
should be sown in April, at the rate of two quarts to an acre; when 
the plants are up they must be set out with a hoe, like turnips, 
to the distance of six inches, plant from plant, and kept free from 
weeds during the season. The May following they will shoot, and, 
if the soil be good, grow three feet high; and in June, when in full 
Jloiver, the plants are to be pulled up, and set in small handfuls to 
dry in the field; when dry enough they may be tied in bundles and 
housed, being careful to put them up loosely, that the air may pass 
between, to prevent fermentation. A small patch may be left for 
seed, which is not to be pulled up till perfectly ripe. Some people 
sow weld with oats and barley, as they do clover seed; and after 
these crops are off, weed them as well as possible, suffering no 
cattle to enter the field till the June twelve months after sowing, 
when the weld is pulled and dried as before. 
THE FRUIT GARDEN. 
Planting Fruit Trees. 
Sucii fruit trees as are not yet burst into leaf may be trans- 
planted in the early part of the month, but any that are either in 
leaf or flower will suffer considerably by such unseasonable remo- 
