SECT. XV. OF ESCULENTS. . X>09 " 



yellow is bed, though the white is moil commonly 

 the fort ufed. Sect; beets in February or March, thinly, 

 either in drills or broad caft, and hoe them to a toot 

 afunder : They run to feed the fecond year. A little 

 alio may be fown, early in autumn, for late fpring ufe ; 

 but they will be fmall. The red fort is cultivated for 

 its root, and is preferved in winter, in dry fand, as 

 carrots are; and of this there is a turnip fhaped fort, 

 that fuits beft in heavy (hallow foils, and along rooted 

 fort proper for light and deep ones: Beets, but prin- " 

 cipally the red, require a rich foil. 



B'JoRCOi.E, or cale, is a hardy green, of which we 

 have two principal forts, green and brawn, and a little 

 variety is in the leaf, as plain, curled, variegated: The 

 latter 'is a pretty vegetable when growing, but not fo 

 hardy, or fo pleafant, at table as the other forts. 



Some'fow two crops of this green at the end of 

 March and of April, but one fowing may fuffice ; and 

 the firft day of April, or at lead in the firft week, is 

 the be ft time. Sow in an open fituation, and in cool 

 ground, and thin the plants in time, that they may be 

 rob uft, and able to fupport themfelves. 



This green mould be planted out in rows a yard 

 afunder, and two feet apart in the rows, having been 

 previoufly pricked out from the feed bed, at fix inches 

 for five or fix weeks, to obtain ftrength for final planting 

 in June or July. 



Let boorcole, and all fummer planted tilings, have a 

 good watering at the time, and again in a tew days, 

 if the weather proves dry ; and before winter let them 

 be well earthed up to fupport the plants from the wind 

 and fnow, that are apt to break them down, or at leaft, 

 to fet them awry; which, when it happens, mould be 

 attended to, to fix them upright again; obierve this 

 of all other winter greens. 



The heads of boorcole may be cut in winter, and 

 the fp routs come full in fpring, but the heads mould 

 be fruit bitten firtt. The -ip routs mould only be 



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