Jan.] The Kitchen Garden. 17 



rovvfat is the propercft for fowhig at this feafon ; obferv- 

 ing, if you intend to fet flicks for thefc peas to run up, 

 few them in rows full four feet diftant from each other ; 

 but if no Hicks are intended, three feet and a half will be 

 quite fufficient. 



For a general liif of peas, fee the catalogue for the kit- 

 chen plants, at the end of the book, any of which may 

 alfo be fowed now in open weather. 



Earth'iHg up Peas and Beans, 



If you harve peas and beans already up one, two, or three 

 inches height, or more, take advantage of a ^iry day, when 

 the furfiice of the gronnd is dry, and draw fomc earth up 

 to their flems. 



This fliould not be omitted, for it will flrengthen the 

 plants, and prote6t them greatly from the froft, 



Jrticbokcs, 



Artichokes, if not earthed up before, fhould not be neg^ 

 lected any longer, except the feverity of the weather pre- 

 vents ; when it will be proper to lay a good thick covering 

 of litter, fern, or llraw on them; othervvifeyou u'ill run the 

 rifque of lofing all your plants, if the froll: Ihould prove very 

 rigorous. Care mull be taken to clear away all the rotten 

 or old leaves, quite clofe to the ground, before the plants 

 are earthed up or covered as above. 



But the work of landing up artichokes (hould always be 

 performed in the end of November, or beginning of De- 

 cember; for which fee the work of thofe months. And the 

 earthing or landing them up, fliould never be omitted, for 

 it is the moil certain method of preferving the plants in 

 fcvere winters. 



And after they are landed, if the froll fliould prove very 

 fevere, it will alfo be proper to lay long litter over the rows ; 

 if the plants are of the true globe fort, too great care cannot 

 be taken to preferve them : for fometimes a fevere winter 

 makes great havock among them, and in fpring ycung fets 

 to recruit the plantations are often fo very fcarce, that they 

 can hardly be obtained for any money. 



Mifjhrooms* 



Mufliroom beds fliould be carefully attended tp at this 

 feafon. They fhould have fufKcicnt covering to defend them 



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