72 The Kitchen Garden". [Feb. 



the crowns of the main roots ; but this latter is only prac- 

 ticable in private gardens : for where the large roots are 

 "deiigned for fale, their tops muil not be taken off, which 

 would render them unfaleable in market; therefore the 

 market gardeners always reierve the flrongeit off-fets arifmg 

 by the lide of the main root. 



Being thus furnifhed with a proper quantity of fets, then 

 proceed to prepare the ground for their reception ; and they 

 may either be planted with a dibble after the ground is dug, 

 or trenched in as yc u proceed in digging the ground. 



Choofe, however, an open fituation, and as light and 

 deep a foil as the garden affords ; v/hich trench regularly 

 one good fpade deep, at lead. 



Then proceed by dibble planting, in the following man- 

 ner. Being provided with a long dibble, then beginning 

 at one end of the piece of ground, range a line crofs-ways, 

 and with the dibble make holes, about fifteen inches deep, 

 and be careful to make them all of an equal depth ; which 

 you may readily do, by making a mark upon the dibble, 

 iifteen inches from the lower end, fo thrufting it always 

 down to that mark, making the holes fix inches afunder, 

 dropping, as you go on, one fet or cutting in each hole, 

 with the crown, &c. upright, taking care to fill or clofe 

 the holes up properly with the earth, the rows to be half a 

 yard or two feet afunder. 



The other method of planting by trenching in the fets, 

 is, that opening a trench at one end in the common me- 

 thod of trenching, two fpadcs wide, and one good fpade 

 deep ; and then having the fets or cuttings, plant one row 

 along the bottom of the trench, with their crowns up- 

 right, about fiX inches afunder ; then dig the next trench 

 the fame width and depth, turning the earth into the iirll 

 trench over the row of fets ; thus proceed, trench and 

 trench, to the end. 



By pradifmg either of the above methods of planting 

 horfe-radix^i, the fets will ihoct up perfectly itraight 

 root-lhoots, quite to the top, whereby they will be long 

 and imooth, and fwell evenly their whole length ; and 

 will fometimes attain tolerable perfe6lion in one fummer's 

 growth. 



When the whole is planted, the ground may then be 

 fown with fpinacb, which wi-11 come oif time enough to give 

 the radiih fall room to ?row ; for thefe will not come up 



till 



