136 The Kitchen Garden. [Man- 

 Note, The fkirrets may alfo be propagated by flips from 



the fides of old root$>. planting them fix or eight inches- 



dillan-ce. 



All thefe plants are ejleemed for their long flefhy roots 



for boiling, being in perfeftion in Autumn, &c. See 



next month. 



Lizrge- roofed ParJIey. 



Sow the feeds of Hamburgh or large -rooted parfley, if 

 they were not fown the former month : let this feed be 

 fown thin and equally,, on beds of rich earth in an open 

 fituation, and rake them in : when the plants are up, and 

 have got a little ftrength, they muit be thinned to fix- 

 inches diilance, that the roots may have room to fwell ^ 

 for it is the root of this plant that is to be eaten. 



Kidney Beaits, 



Kidney beans may be planted about the end of this; 

 jnonth, if the weather is dry, and the ground not too 

 wet ; they muil be planted clofe under fome warm wall, 

 or ihey will not fucceed well. 



Draw fome drills for them in a warm border> abour 

 two feet or thirty inches afunder. 



Place the beans in the drills about two or three inches 

 apart, and cover them with earth about an inch deep. 



Or may fovv fome feed. in a {lender hot-bed about the end- 

 of the month, for tranfplanting into warm borders the 

 middle or latter end of April,' &c. 



For the different forts of kidney beans, fee the Kitchem 

 Garden for Jpril. 



Sow more kidney beans in a hot-bed or hot-houfe,v &c. 

 to continue a regular fupply of the early crops, to fucceed' 

 thofe of the two former months, obferving the fame 

 methods as there direfled.- 



Cardoons*- 



Sow cardoons in the middle of this month for tranf-- 

 plantation : dig a bed of light earth for them in a free' 

 fituation, let the feed be fown thin, and rake it in evenly; 

 the plants will come up in about a fortnight, or three 

 weeks ; and in about two months after, are to be tranf- 

 plantedfmallyin anopeirfitaation, four or five feet afunder. 



But obferve when the plants have been come up in the 

 feed-bed about a fortnight or three weeks, they fhould be 



thinned 



