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KAIL, or KILMAURS. 



Kllmaurs or Scotch Kail are the bjeft of any for boil- 

 ing in winter, but they will not eat tender, until 

 they are well pinched with the froft. They are to be 

 fown in March, and pricked out into niirfery-beds in 

 May, at three inches diftance, keeping them clear 

 of weeds ; to be planted out for j^ood in yuly-, into 

 ground where you have had your early crops of Peafe, 

 and when you have laid in fome dung, plant them at 

 one foot and a half diftance every way ; watering them 

 until you perceive them to grow. In O^ober hill 

 them up, and keeping them clear of weeds, is all the 

 culture that this Kail and Coleworths or open Kail 

 require. 



LEEKS. 



LEEKS are cultivated in the fame manner as Oni- 

 ons. About the beginning of July take your lar- 

 gelt and befl: rooted Leeks, and having cut oflF three pr 

 four inches of their long blades, more or lefs, as they 

 ar€ in length, trim their longeft fibres, and plant 

 fix rows in a bed of light rich earth, four feet broad, 

 where, if they are kept clear of weeds, they will grow 

 large in their heads, and will be much better than any 

 that have not been tranfplanted : thinning the feedlings 

 will be of great ufe. Some fow Leeks and Onions pro- 

 mifcuoufly, allcdging, that when the Onions are taken 

 off, the Leeks may remain. But this method 1 would 

 not advife, as the laying the Onions to make them fwell 

 muft be performed with the hand, and the Leeks near 

 them may be injured ; whereas the topping the Leeks 



muft be done with a knife. The Lcjidon Leek is to 



be preferred to the French. 



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