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upright ſpecies produee 434 buſhels. Planted the year following with the Champion ſort: the crop great.()

Dr. Wilkinſon, of Enfield, dibbles every furrow eight inches, and the ſets ſix. Crop 400 buſhels.(e),

0BSERVATION.

The method here deſcribed is that generally practiſed by the greateſt planters perhaps in the kingdom(thofe in Effex) by whom London is chiefly ſupplied. Great attention is due to the mode preferred by ſuch men whoſe ſcale of practice is ſo-reſpectable; their crops, however, do not appear(the vaſt advantage of London dung confidered) to riſe into ſuch ſuperiority as to allow any one to draw decifive concluſions. Here then is a field for moſt intereſting comparative experiments, which ſeem particu- larly to be wanted.—

SECGTION IV.— BY THE HOE. 1 Authority from tbe Reports. IN the North Riding of Vorkfhire, where they plant about twenty inches afunder, the dung is laid in the furrows, the ſets on the dung, and

covered by drawing the mould upon them with hoes: when the plants ap- pear, they are earthed up by the plough.(a)

Anotber Autborixy.

At Sandy, in Bedfordfhire, they plant by hoeing holes, and cover by the next row of holes: come up about a foot ſquare.(b)

ſd, Vol. 5. p. 252. ſe, Vol. 20. p,. 458. a) North Riding, p. 43. 16) Annals, Vol. 18, p. 225. 2 a