134 The Kitchen Garden, [Mar. 



Mint. 



This is now a good time to make new plantations of 

 mint. 



This plant is propagated either by parting the roots, 

 or by flips of the young fpring plants taken up with 

 root fibres at th" bottom ; alfo by cuttings of the young 

 flalks next month and May, &c. but at this feafon the 

 encreafmg it jy flips, or parting the roots, is mofl gene- 

 rally pradifed, and the method is this : 



In the third or fourth week in this month, have recourfe 

 to fuch old beds of mint as are well flocked with young 

 plants, and there flip or draw up a due quantity of the 

 bell of the young plants, obferving to flip and draw them 

 up with roots J to do which you muil draw them up. 

 gently, and with the help of your knife at times, to raife 

 or feparate them ; by which care, every plant will rife 

 with tolerable good roots. 



Hav.ng procured the plants, let them be planted ia 

 rows about fix inches afunder, and five or fix inches dif^ 

 tant in the rovv£, and let them, have immediately a tolerable 

 watering, to fettle the earth clofe about their roots. 



The method of propagating mint by roots is this: get 

 a quantity of old roots, and let thefe be parted in a proper 

 manner; then draw drills ulth a hoe fix inches afunder; 

 place the roots in the. drills, cover them about an inch 

 deep with the earth, and then rake the ground. 



But when the above method is to be pradliled, the roots 

 fhould be procured, and planted either in February, or 

 the beginning of this month, or in Odober or November.. 



Thefe plants will thrive in almofl any foil or fituation. 



Qbferve, that all the forts of mint, fuch as fpear-mint, 

 pepper-mint, orange-mint, &c. may all be propagated by 

 the above methods. 



Capjicums. 



Sow capficums, the feed-pods of thefe plants being- 

 of a hot fpicy quality, are much efteemed for pickling : 

 the large podded kinds are befl, but any of the Ibrts may 

 be ufed : See the Catalogue of Plants. Let thefe feeds 

 be fov/ed in a hot- bed about the beginning, middle, or to- 

 wards the latter end of this month : and when the plants ap- 

 pear, let them havealargeportionof free air^andwater them 



frecjuentiy. 



