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come up, fhould the fpring or fummer prove dry, they 

 are to be plentifully watered, and fhou!d any of tliem 

 attempt to run or fly to feed, cut them down to within 

 two inches of the ground, laying fome of the earth in 

 the alleys over the beds, being firll: well worked with 

 the fpade, this being the befl method to keep their roots 

 in a growing flate, cool and tender. As their leaves 

 drop in Od^/sier, the holes are to be marked, for the 

 greater certainty of taking them up without wounding 

 their roots. The Skirret is no where fo well preferved as 

 in the bed, which is to be protected from the winter's vio- 

 lence by litter. — Be fure always to raife them from feed. 



SORREL. 



THE French, or round leaved Sorrel is the bell, 

 and is propagated by feeds fown in Augufl, or 

 from flips planted at one foot and a half dillance, plant 

 from plant (as it is^a great runner) in a good middling 

 foil, and in an open fituation, or upon a fouth-eall af- 

 pe£ted wall, to have it eaily. In fummer, when you 

 perceive the plants running up to feed, fuffer them to 

 run three inches high, and then cut them down clofe, 

 by which means the plants will pufh out new leaves and 

 heads for frefli plantarions in autumn. 



The great broad-leaved Sorrel comes in earlier thau 

 the French, znd is cultivated in the fame manner, exccpr 

 to have a greater diftance, as the leaves are larger. 



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 S P I N A G F. 



The bed Sorts are, 



1 The Prickly, for winter. And, 



2 The Broadell Leaved, for fummer, 



THE mof!: proper time for fowing the prickly rniHll- 

 leaved Spinage for winter ufe, is from the 201 li 

 of July to the 12th of /InjjuJ}, and in drill--, rather than 



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