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Dire^ions for conjlru^ing Afparagus Beds, 



IN order to make ready for this work, a cornpoft is to 

 be prepared, to confift of two parts of rotted dung, 

 and a third of good mould and fand equally mixed, fea 

 fand to have the preference. 



The quarter intended for the bed, is to be cleared to 

 the depth of two feet, (or deeper, according to your 

 quantity of gravel or rubbilh) then you are to lay down 

 fome coarfe gravel or lime rubbifli, to the depth of two 

 inches at lead (to take off any ftagnated water) which 

 is to be covered with a layer of coal-aflies to the fame 

 depth, and the cavity to be filled with rotted horfe dung, 

 well trod in, kept even and clofe, and to rife to the fur- 

 face of the ground ; over this you are to lay four inches 

 of the cornpoft, prepared as above directed, which is to 

 be raked very fmooth. The beds are then to be laid in 

 breadths of four feet, with alleys of two feet between 

 each, putting down markers to direfl: the planting, from 

 which cords are to be ftrained, fo as to divide the beds into 

 fquares of a foot each; in the centre of each fquare you 

 are to fet down a plant, fpreading out its fibres, and fix 

 inches from the edge of the bed, the plants not to be 

 more than two years old, and then you are to lay on the 

 remainder of the comport to the depth of two inches. 

 — For the care of the beds and your future practice fee 

 Afparagus i p. 18,4. 



N. B. Great attention is to be paid to the choice of 

 feed, for the raifing of your plants, as only the very beft 

 can give fuch as are worth your care, and obfervc, never 

 to fuffer any thing to be planted on the furface, or in the 

 alleys of the beds. 



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