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one another ' Carrots are plucked up, when they are 

 an inch Diameter at rhe head, for then they are of 

 ufe, or (boner, if rhe thicknefs of their (landing re- 

 quire it ; and this is general for all Roots, Parfneps, 

 Radifh, Skirrets, that grow by Seed: Some fow (as 

 I mentioned above) Parfneps, Carrots, Radiili, and 

 Sail ad Herbs in the fame Ecdj firft Sifing out the Sal- 

 lad Herbs and Radiih, then the Carrots as they grow, 

 leaving the Parfneps till Winter, by which means 

 their ground is always full, yet by reafon of the Si- 

 iing in due times, never over-burthened. 



The culture of Straw-berries requires fomewhat like 

 ftzing, (viz,.) The cutting off immediately after 

 bearing the fpires and firings, which would multiply 

 unto too many Roots and Branches, to have plenty of 

 fair Straw-berries : Nor is this once onely to be 

 done;, but as often as they fpring anew, fo' often are 

 they to be taken off., until the time of the Bloffoms 

 draws on ; I have feen fome that were not over curi- 

 ous to tear off the firings by harrowing up and down 

 their Beds of Straw-berries with an Iron Rake. 



Some make a que/Hon, Whether Plants of the 

 fame kinde 3 by reafon of a fuppofal that they require 

 the fame parts for nouriftvment ; or Weeds and 

 Graffes, by their too great vicinity, may create more 

 annoyance to their Neighbors, I decide not theque- 

 ftion, nor can reconcile the Gardiner to Weeds, 

 while!* he findes his llrongeft Plants destroyed by 

 them : I have feen many Trees in a well grown Nur- 

 fary, fpoiled by the Grafs that grew amidil them; and 

 as 1 remember, the very Bark of the Trees them- 

 felves was rotted, by a dew caft upon them from the 

 Grafs r I have likewife obferved, a flrongly grown 

 Quickfet of W T hite Thotth to have been del* royed by 



