224 ON ASPARAGUS. 



THE fire-place mould be funk a foot 

 lower than the bottom of the pit, to give 

 room for an afh-hole below the grate, and 

 fufficient height to the fire-place, that 

 there may be a rife of eighteen inches at 

 leaft before the flue comes to the level, 

 which mould go all round, and the chim* 

 ney ftand over the fire-place, which mould 

 ftand without the fquare of the pit. 



THE flue at firft mould go along the 

 end, and be carried within four inches of 

 the outfide of the wall, to prevent its be- 

 ing too hot at firft going off; but mould, 

 as foon as paft the end, be brought gradu- 

 ally into the fquare, to have only the four 

 inches fupport the remainder of the way 

 round. 



WHEN the whole is finifhed, and the 

 bottom prepared according to the ground 

 it ftands on, the pit fhould be filled with 

 the fame compofition that was made for 

 the trenches for large afparagus. This 

 ihould be done at leaft two months before 



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