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 third upon the fecond, till you have finiilicd all the 

 Ranges. 



1 finde likewiie two other manners of blanching 

 them for the Winter ; the firlt is, at the firil Froll^ 

 that you tie them after the ordinary way, and then ac 

 the end of eight or ten days, plucking them up,couch 

 them in the Bed where you raif'd them from Seeds, 

 making a i'mall Trench croi's the Bed the height of 

 your Plant, which will be about eight Inches, begin- 

 ning at one end. In this you feltt range your Plants 

 fide by fide, fo as they may gently touch, and a lit- 

 tle Shelving ; this done, cover them with fmall rot- 

 ten dung of the lame bed : Then make another fur- 

 row for a fecond range, in which order, lay your 

 plants as before, continuing this order till you have 

 finiih'd: And lad of all, cover the whole Jed four 

 Fingers thick, with hot foyl frefh drawn out of the 

 Stable, and in a ihort time they will be blanched. If 

 you will afterwards cover the bed with fo'me Mats 

 placed adant, like the ridge of a Houfe, to preferve 

 them from the Rain, they will lal* a very long time 

 without rotting : When you would have any o£ 

 them for ufe, begin at the lalt which you buried, and 

 taking them 04 they come, draw 'them out of the 

 range, and break off what you fhall finde rotten up- 

 on the place, or that which has contracted any black- 

 nefs from the dung, before you put it into your Baf- 

 ket for the Kitchen. 



A fecond manner of preferving it, is, to interre it, 

 as before, in furrows of Sand in the Cellar, placing 

 the Root upmoft, leaft the Sand run in between the 

 leaves, and you finde it in the difh when they fervc 

 it. You need not here beftow any dung upon them, 

 it is fuflkient that the Sand cover the Plant four fin- 

 gers 



