If you would blanch them with more expedition^ 

 you may cover every Plant with a fmall earthen pot, 

 faiTuWd like a Goldfmiths Crucible, and then lay 

 Come hot foyi upon them, and they will quickly be- 

 come white. 



Concerning Succories^ Thus, 



There are feveral kindes of Garden Succories, dif- 

 ferent in leaf and bignefs, but refembling in talk, 

 and which are to be ordered alike. 



Sow it in the Spring upon the Borders, and when k 

 has fix leaves, replant it in rich ground, about eigh- 

 teen inches diftance, paring them at the tops : when 

 they are grown fo large, as to cover the ground, tye 

 them up, as I inftrufted you before, where I treated 

 of the Roman Lettuce; not to binde rhem up by hand- 

 fuls, as they grow promifcuoufly, but the ftrongeft 

 and forwarder firft, letting the other fortifie. 

 . . There is yet another faihion of blanching it : In 

 the great heats, when inftead of heading, you per- 

 ceive it would run to Seed, hollow the Earth at the 

 one end of the Plane, and couch it down without vio- 

 lating any of the leaves, and fo cover it, leaving out 

 onely the tops and extremity of the leaves, and thus 

 it will become white in a little time, and be hindred 

 from running to Seed. 



Thofe who are very curious, binde the leaves gent- 

 ly, before they interre them,to keep out the Grit from 

 entring between them, which is very troublefome to 

 wafh out, when you would drefs it. 



Remember to couch them all at one fide, one upon 

 another j, as they grew being planted, beginning with 

 that which is neareft the end of the Bed, and conti- 

 nuing to lay them, the fecond upon the firft, and the 



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