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end iliod with iron, about a foot up, having a foot or fhoul- 

 der of iron fixed at about five or fix inches from the bottom, 

 to put your foot upon to help to thruft it into the ground, 

 thrufting it always as far in the ground as the above 

 ihoulder, by which means the holes are made all an exad 

 depth. 



One perfon may be employed in making the holes, and 

 another to follow after to drop in the potatoes, which work 

 of dropping them may be performed by women, or girls, 

 or boys. 



yeru/akm Artichokes, 



Pl;5nt Jerufalem artichokes where required. 



Thefe roots will thrive in almoil any foil, and multi- 

 ply fo exceedingly, that it is not eafy to clear the ground 

 of them again, for the leaft bit will grow. The root, 

 the eatable part of the plant, being large flefhy tubers, 

 bearing fome refemblance to a potatoe, but of a more ir- 

 regular form, and taile fome what like the bottom of an 

 artichoke, (hence the namej are in perfe^lioA in autumn 

 and all winter, and are very good and wholefome to boil 

 and eat with butter, &c. 



Let them be plantevi in rows a yard afunder, four or 

 five inches deep, and eighteen inches or two feet diftant 

 in the rows. 



Obferve the fame method in preparing the fets and 

 planting them, as directed for potatoes. 



The Fruit Garden. 



Pruning Fig-Trees, 



PRUN E fig-trees, this being the beft time of the year 

 for performing that work. 

 Some prune figs the latter end of autumn, but that is 

 wrong; the young bearing (hoots being tender, many of 

 them are liable to be killed by the froit in fevere winters; 

 and, therefore, if they were to be pruned in autumn, 

 and no more flioots left than what will jull furnifh the 



wall. 



