204 The Gardener's New Director. 



E S C A L L 1 O N. 



SEE Chives. 



FENNEL. 



THE common Fennel is propagated by fowing its 

 feeds immtdiately after they are ripe, ar.d in the 

 fpring tranfplanting them into beds of good earth, at a- 

 bout one foot diftance. Whenever the plants fpire and 

 fhew their feed, cut them down, that they may not 

 filed it, as it would over-run the garden. Their roots 

 Hand many years. - 



F I N O C H I A. 



THE Finochia, or fweet Italian Fennel, is but little 

 ufed in this country. However, I fhall here give 

 my own practice, by which I had it very good. 



I got my Finochia feeds annually from Leghorn. About 

 the beginning of April I fowed it in drills, fix inches 

 feed from {^^6, upon a rich light earth, on the border 

 of a fouth-eaft afpefted wall. In dry weather water the 

 drills gently, until the plants appear above ground, which 

 will be in four weeks after fowing ; obferving to keep 

 the ground clear from weeds. The drills fhould be two 

 feet from one another, and tour or five inches deep. 

 Draw up every other plant, to give them room to fwelk 



In a month after they appear, their lower parts will 

 fwell and become big, jufl above the furface of the 

 earth, when it will be proper, in dry weather, to land 

 them as you do Celery for blanching, this will make 



them 



