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PARSNIPS. 



THE Dutch fwelling Parfnip is the beft for kltchen- 

 ufe : and as their culture is the fame with the 

 Carrot, it is unneceffiry to repeat it ; but you are to ob- 

 ferve, when you thin them, they muft have a greater 

 diilance than Carrots. 



I have often fown Red Beets amongft my Parfnips, 

 with very good fuccefs ; they differ in nothing from the 

 cuhure of the Parfnip, but in this, that if they are 

 fown on a hot dry foil, they fly up to feed in June or 

 Julyy which makes their roots fmall and dicky. To pre- 

 vent this, as foon as they rife fix inches, cut them 

 down, and hoe them, which will make their roots fwell 

 confiderably. When I fow them with Parfnips, I only 

 drop a few of their feeds amongft them ; and when 

 fown by themfelves, they are to be thinned to one 

 foot, plant from plant. The beft Beet is the round 

 turnip-rooted kind. 



PEASE. 



I Have already treated of raifing Peafe upon hot-beds, 

 in which I u'fed the dwarfs only ; wherefore I fliall not 

 take notice of ihem here, but cannot omit to mention 

 another method, by which I had Peafe very early. In 

 September I fowed fome of the Dwarf, and Majlen's 

 early Hotfpur in pots, and funk them in the common 

 earth; and as foon as the froft became violent, I 

 brought them into the green houfe, near the windows, 

 where I made a border of good frefli earth, with- 

 out dung ; and by the beginning of December^ when 

 the Peafe were ft'ocky, I raifed them out of the pots 

 by a trowel, with a clump of earth, and planted 

 them in this border, in rows at three' feet diftance, And 

 ten inches plant from plant, that they might have fuffi- 

 cicnt room, watering them gently, to fctilc the earth 



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