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them eat crifp and tender ; yet this muft not be done all 

 at once, but as the plants advance. For a fucceflion you 

 may continue fowing, following the fame culture until 

 the middle of 'June. 



The Italian method of managing Finochia may be 

 feen under the article Brocoli, as communicated by 

 the late Lord Bifliop oi Killala, to the Dublin Society. 



G A R L I C K. 



GAR LICK is propagated in the fame manner as 

 Shallots ; but if in May you perceive it in- 

 clines to fpire up and feed, twifl: the tops of their blades, 

 which will prevent their feeding. 



H O T - B E D S. 



IPropofe to give fome dire^lions for making Hot-beds 

 of horfe-dung, for thofe crops in the kitchen-garden 

 which require to be early, efpecially Cucumbers and 

 Melons : the raifing of which, when the heat of the fun 

 is declining, makes it necefTary to afliil: nature in our 

 climate. 



Take a good quantity of new made horfe-dung from 

 the flable, with a good quantity of litter; lay this dung 

 in a heap for feven days to ferment, that the rank 

 fume may pafs off; if you obferve that the dung and 

 litter are not equally mixed, turn it over again, and mix 

 it as equally as you can, and let it lie four days longer ; 

 by this turning and mixing, it will acquire a due 

 heat, which, when you obferve, make a trench where 

 you intend to fet down your hot-bed, one foot and a 

 half deep, if the fituation is dry, and in length and 

 breadth correfpondirg to the frame you are to fet o- 

 ver it, obferving that the dung projc6ls fix inches all 

 round beyond the frame ; then wheel the dung into 



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