312 EX P-ERIMENTS ON Part III. 



cabbages, beet-roots, carrots, and fcorzoneras ; and all of thetn 

 were as fine, and well-flavour'd, as before. 



" I likewife planted a bed of colliflowers this year, which were 

 tranfplanted on the 9th of June. On the 20th of Auguft, I cut the 

 two tirft heads, which were very fine, and of an excellent tafte. 

 Cardoons, cultivated in the fame manner, grew very fine, though 

 they were greatly retarded by a fhower of hail. 



"I am now trying to raife more lafting plants, by cultivating them 

 according to the new hulbandry. To this end, I have laid oown a 

 bed of 32 perches long and fix feet v/ide, and planted it, on the 24th 

 of March, with a row of afparagus, which have made good flioots 

 this firfi: vear. 



" I have feveral beds fix feet wide, planted with fingk rows 

 of ftraw berries. The vigor of the plants, the largeuefs of the 

 leaves, and the very great number of roots, give me room to expedt 

 that the fruit will be very large and plentiful. 



*' The fuccefs I have already had, the eafe with which this culture 

 is performed, the advantage of not ufing dung, and that of being 

 eafed of the trouble of watering, fo neceifary in kitchen gardens, 

 that, in hot weather, it takes up almofl the whole of one man's 

 time, are confiderations of fuch- weight, as deteriTuned me to conti- 

 nue thefe experiments. 



" Accordingly, in 1754, I raifed the fame plants again in beds, 

 and with the fame fuccefs : for they were equally beautiful and good. 

 Tho' the year was very hot and dry, I watered none of them, ex- 

 cept at the time of tranfplanting, to make them take the better. 

 Thofe that were left where they were fown, were not watered at 

 all. This fliews how much the new hufbandry preferves a moifiiure 

 in the earth. 



" The ftrawberries, this year, were admirable, extremely large, 

 finely fcented, and of a very high flavour. 



" The afparagus, which vpas in its fecond year, was as fine as any 

 in the befi: cultivated gardens. 



" Artichokes planted at the end of May, produced their firft fruit 

 in September, which was, in general, from 12 to 15 inches in 

 circumference. Their leaves entirely covered the beds fix feet 

 wide. 



" I have raifed even melons in the fame manner, without any 

 dung, or hot bed, and v/ithout bell-glafl'es, or any glafs-frame to cover 

 them. I fowed thtm as I would have done wheat. The plants 



came 



