Note 83 — CHAP. VIII. Of Turneps.
Reading edition
I do not think that we can go nearer to the Plants with the Hoe-plough, than within Three Inches of their Bodies.
[84]We ought not to use the Bidens for this Purpose, before the perpendicular Roots are as big as one’s little Finger.
[85]Some of these Prong-hoes have Three Teeth, and are reckoned better as a Tridens than a Bidens; but this is only in mellow Ground.