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sap is at rest, and the leaves and stalks thorough- ly withered, by going to the depth of the prin- cipal roots, pickers being at hand, to gather after the spade.‘This crop, wasting in weight upon hand, is best sold immediately, and has sometimes produced more than three thousand weight, or from sixty to an hundred pounds per acre; but I have given these few particulars, rather as matter of curiosity, than real use, since such an expen- sive, lengthened, and precarious culture, can ne- ver be an object with farmers.

Ruveare stands in the same predicament with the last article, and farther, on consulting certain professional persons lately, I find, notwithstand- ing all which has been said in its favour, British Rhubarb is of a quality so inferior tothe Turk- ish, as in that view to. be no desirable object of culture. The seeds may be sown either in spring or autumn, in beds, well manured with rich and rotten dung, and the plants when fit, that is, about four inches high, set out at four feet dis- tance, in pits, three feet deep, filled with manure, sifted coal ashes, slaked lime, and mud. Keep the plants free from weeds and vermin. When the stalks are withering, take up the roots, clean them, cut them into small pieces, string them on packthread, and dry them gradually.

Tozsacco—The culture of this herb, upon a farm, is byno means improper, since, where much live-stock is kept, Tobacco may be applied to va- rious useful purposes, and its efficacy is consider- ably greater, while fresh and green. The law allows the culture of only fifteen square yards of

Tobacco,