JPiBj Or ESCULENTS. SECT. XV. 



of i\: cTi weather, take up fume, and lay It by in dry earth 

 under flicker for ufe. 



Ccluriac requires a rich foil, and fhould have frequent 

 watering to have fine tender roots. Plant in trenches 

 about three inches deep, and earth up, (only once) 

 when the plants are about three p :rts grown, to four 

 inches height. 'I his fpecies is hardier than the others, 

 and holds longer in fpring; therefore, thofe Who like 

 the folid root fliould cultivate it. 



The feed of celery, (in default of plants) if bruited, 

 anfwers very well to give foup a flavour of it. Parjley 

 ieed, &c. may be ufed in the fame way. 



Char don is a gigantic vegetable of the crfichch 

 kind, (now feldom cultivated) ufed fometimes mfallads, 

 but chiefly in foups, or flcwed, <^c. Sow about the 

 middle of March, and end of April, in trenches, four 

 feet, or more, afunder, a foot wide, and fix inches 

 deep. Dr-»p the feed (which will be near a month 

 coming up) a few inches afunder, and thin them at laft 

 to the diftance of from three to four feet. They muft 

 be watered in a dry time. Thofe plants that are drawn 

 rr.av be taken up with balls of earth about them, and 

 planted in trenched rows as cilery, at the above diftance, 

 and the rows five feet from one another. The leaves 

 onlv of this plant are ufed, after they are blanched; 

 which is done by earthing two thirds of their length up, 

 when about three or four feet high, tying neat hay- 

 bands firft cloie round them, to within a foot of the 

 top; i.e. blanch when they are full grown, in Auguji 

 and September, and in about fix weeks they will be fit 

 for u^e. In thefe months it will be well to water them 

 regularly in dry weather, to prevent their feeding. In 

 froii cover the tops with draw : It will aflift the blanch- 

 ing to lay Itraw, or offal hay, clofe round them when 

 tied. This plant is biennial here, but perennial in 

 its native climate, Spain t &c. 



Chou de Milan is of the boorcole kind, and pro- 

 pagated like it, but the plants fhould be put out at a yard 

 afunder. This is a very good winter green, and flays 



longer 



