t'i4^ The Kitchen Gardeit. [Man 



pliable, fo as it will readily fall to pieces in digging or 

 raking. Sec. and in a lituation tKat enjoys the full fun. 



The ground where you intend to make new afparagus 

 beds, fhould be regularly trenched, and a large quantity 

 of good rotten dung buried equally in each trench, at leaft 

 twelve Qr iifteen inches below the furface of the dug 

 grounds 



The grouftd being du^, and laid level, divide it into 

 beds four feet and a halt wide, with alleys two feet wide 

 between bed and bed. 



Four rows of afparagus are to be planted in each bed, and 

 ten or twelve inches diilance to be allowed between plant 

 and plant in the row, and let the two outfide rows of each 

 bed be nine inches from^ the edge. 



Next let it be obferved, that the plants for this planta- 

 tion muft not be more than two years old ; but moll good 

 gardeners prefer thofe that are only one year, which ard 

 what I would choofe to plant ; as from experience, I have 

 found they generally take root much freer, and fucceed 

 evTry way better than two years old plants. If you choofe 

 to raife the plants yourfelf, it is done by fowing the feed 

 any time this month in a bed of rich earth ; (fee page 1 26) 

 or, if you do not choofe to lofe a year or two in waiting fof 

 your plants, you may purchafe them, ready raifed, of moil 

 kitchen gardeners nearlarge towns. They are commonlyfold" 

 at a (hilling to eighteen pence, or two Oiillings per hundred* 

 The follovv'ing is the method of planting them : 

 Strain your line lengthways the beds, nine inches from 

 the edge, and then with a fpadc cut out a fmall trench or 

 drill clofe to the line, about fix inches deep, making that 

 fide next the line nearly upright ; and when one trench 

 is opened, plant that before you open another, placing 

 the pUnts the diilance of ten or twelve inches in the- 

 row. 



In planting the plants, obferve they muft not be placed 

 flat in the bottom of the trenchi as by fome people 

 pra6liied ; but muft be placed nearly upright againll 

 the back of the trench or drili> and fo that the crown 

 of the plants may alfo Harid upright, and between 

 two or three inches below the furface of the ground j 

 and let them be all placed an equal depth, fpreading 

 their roots fomewhat regular, againll the back of the 

 trench, and. at the fams time drawing a little earth- 

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