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alter lifting, or fooner if you perceive them fpringing, 

 they are to be planted in rows, three inches afundcr, and 

 two root from root. 



As foon as the frofl: fets in, I covered them with the 

 fame fort of tan as in the preceding year, proteQing 

 them from the hot fun in the fpring, that their leaves 

 fhould not be hurried out of their verdure, which is very 

 injurious j and in winter I laid a little more bark upon 

 them. 



At the lifting feafon, you are to treat them as you did 

 the former year, when you may expefl to find them as 



large as common fliallots. About the middle of 



September I replanted tiiem in boxes two feet deep, in 

 order to encreafe the depth of earth; as their fibres 

 will be in proportion as the roots advance in bignefs, 

 I planted them in rows three inches afunder, and two 

 root from root, for the more room they have, the bet- 

 ter will they profper. They are now to be managed 

 as before ; but fhould you find them in winter, too near 

 a wall or hedge move them to 3 more open fituation ; 

 I would advife the boxes being ftrapped with iron, fo as 

 to admit a pole to pafs on each fide, for the more ready 

 moving them, as the boxes will now be heavy, and 

 are the heft things for nurfing thefe young plants in, 

 which I would not plant in the open ground until 



after the third year. I lifted this plantation in 



five weeks after their leaves were down, and laying 

 them in the root-room, I managed them in the fame 

 manner as I did the former years. Their roots being 

 now pretty large, about the beginning of Sipte7nber, I 

 dug a trench in the garden three feet deep below the 

 furface, taking out all the natural earth, and making the 

 bottom of the trench level, I put in the compod: for- 

 merly prefcribed, to one inch below the furface of the 

 path-way; this bed (hou'd be only four feet broad, and 

 the length according to the number of fecdiings. Afterj 

 the bed had fettled a few days, I planted them in the 

 following manner: Having laid out eight llraight lines 

 the length of the bed, I trok fome of the dried fandy 

 earth I could find, and laid it on x\\p fiirfaco of the bed, 

 to the depth of half an inch, and fixed them fo in it 



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