242 CULTIVATION OF 



IF there are no winter plants, and the 

 whole is to be planted with fpring plants, 

 they mould be fown as foon as poffible, in 

 a fpot of good ground that lies pretty 

 warm, to bring them forward. 



THEY fhould not be fown too thick> 

 and it would be worth the labour, after 

 they are come up, to thin them by hand 

 to four inches diftance, as the trouble 

 would be all faved in the planting* befides 

 the advantage of the plants being much 

 larger ; for when they are very thick they 

 are long ftemmed, crooked, and very 

 troublefome to plant, which they are not 

 when thin. 



THE feafon for planting plants that have 

 been kept over the winter, is any time 

 from the beginning of March to the end 

 of April ; but the fooner they are planted 

 the Crop will be the better ; for in that 

 early feafon they have a good chance to 

 get rain after planting ; and as the ground 

 is for the mod part moift, they will re- 

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