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earliest season which can be catched, in April, or May: recollecting that the earliest sown Hemp is best in quality. Tt requires much w atching from birds, butnohoeing, or weeding; Hemp destroying every other plant. dn three or four months it may be pulled, according to the season, a dry time agreeing with it better than much rain. The lege es turning yellow, and the stalks white, arethe signs of ripeness. An acre will produce from air ty to sixty stone of Hemp, and forty stone may be accounted a good crop. LinskED or FLAX, requires a similar soil and culture, two, or three bushels per acre being sown; butwhen good seed is the object, it may be advantageously drilled, in roods twenty inches asunder.

LiquoRIcE a the same kind of sail, above eek d, or arichand deep sand. The land must be double ploughed, or aoe dug to the depth of three, or four feet, which serves for two crops. The surface being fine and level,« libble in thesets, to nearly their full depth, one feat apart, in dou- ble, or treble rows, leaving two-foot spaces for horse-hoeing. The sticks to be had at the drug- gists, 1 am alornie will grow, but they ought to be inspected, to ascertain that they have at least one eye, or bud, without which it would be useless to plant them.‘The crop must be con- stantly kept clean, and towards winter the earth thrown up to the plants. It is also good prac- tice, to cover them in winter with fern, haulm, or long dung; the roots req uire three summers’ erowth, but ought not to be left longer in the eround,‘They may be dug up as soon as the

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