Jan.] The Kitchen Garden. 15 



them up in a dry place for a day or two to drain off 

 the moillure, othei wile will be apt to rot in the ground be- 

 fore the blanching is eftefted. Prepare for their reception 

 a high ridge of earth, in a flieltered place,, where the ground 

 is light and dry, or in either of the methods foUowang : mark 

 out a fpace three feet wide, and in length proportionable 

 to the quantity of endive to be blanched ; dig it one 

 fpade deep, and break the earth fine, then dig a two-feet 

 wide trench on each fide, caft the earth thereof in the mid- 

 dle fpace, breaking it well and forming the whole into a 

 high ridge, making the fides as fleep as poffible, that wet 

 may not lodge ; and into the fides of this may depofite 

 the endive as below ; or may mark out a three-feet wide 

 trench, fide ways towards the fouth, which dig two fpades 

 deep, laying the earth on the north fide, clofe to the edge 

 of the trench, in a high ridge ; making the fide, next the 

 trench, as upright as poifible, that heavy rains may run 

 quickly off, and not reit about the plants. 



Then get the plants, and gathering the leaves of each up 

 regularly and clofe with your hand, make an opening on 

 the fides of the ridge, put the plants fideways into' the 

 earth, almoil to the tops of their leaves, and pretty clofe 

 to one another ; after being thus depofited, it is incum- 

 bent on us to prote6l them in frofty weather, with a cover- 

 ing of dry litter j and they will here whiten in tolerable 

 perfedion. 



For the greater certainty of blanching and preferving good 

 endive at this feafon, there may be laid a quantity of light 

 dry earth, or fand, into any dry flied or other covered 

 place, laying it in a high ridge, or round heap, and fo 

 bury the endive therein as above ; or lay fome dry earth, 

 or old tan, in a garden-frame, and lay it Hoping to the fun, 

 and plant your endive therein, almofi: to the tops of their 

 leaves. When the weather is froily or vvet^ the glafles 

 may be put on, and other covering, if you fee it necef- 

 fary ; by this method you may obtain good endive in the 

 feverefl feafon, provided care be taken to lay in a quantity 

 at the firfi approach of hard froils. One frame will contain 

 a great many plants, 



But with re^peS. to the endive that Is growing in the open 

 ground, it Is proper, in fevere froily weather, to cover fome 

 of thebefi: plants with any kind of "dry long litter, but muft 

 be immediately removed in mild weather to prevent puire* 

 fadtion. 



