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they are to remain, allowing- them a foot diiUnce each 

 way. 



Capjicum ard Lonje- apples. 



Sow capficum, and love-apples, for their fruit to pickle, 

 and for foups, &c. if you omitted ibwiiig laft month ; the 

 beginning or middle of this being flill a proper feafon for 

 that work, obferving to fow them in a hot-bed as diredcd 

 in March. 



Turneps, 



Turneps may be fown any time this month for a full 

 fummer crop ; this feed is of a quick growth, and tli2 . 

 plants will appear in a few days after the feed is fown. 



Let this feed be fown in an open fpot of ground, mo- 

 derately thin, and as equally as poifible : tread it down re- 

 gularly, and rake it in with a light and even hand. 



Hoe and thin the early turneps which were fown the 

 former month, leaving the plants feven or eight inches 

 diftant from each other. 



Scorzonera and Solfafy, 



Sow icorzonera and falfafy, about the middle of this 

 month, for the principal crop. Thofe which are fown 

 earlier than that time, are apt to ran up for feed before 

 the roots acquire their due fize, and are thereby rendered 

 ufelefs. 



Sow them feparately in open fituations, and rake them 

 in. 



They will require thinning in May or June to five or fix 

 inches diilance, and the roots will attain perfedlion in 

 autumn, and continue good all winter till fpring follow- 

 ing; are by many much efteemed both to boil and eat like 

 young carrots, and in foups, &c. 

 PurJIane. 



Purflane may be fowed now, if warm dry weather, on a 

 bed of light rich earth, in the common ground. Sow it 

 evenly on the furface, and rake it in lightly Water the 

 bed often in, dry weather, and fhade it from the hot fun 

 till the plants are come up, and have gotten a little 

 ftrength. 



But if cold or very wet weather, fow fome eithrr in a 

 hot-bed, under ihclter of glsffes, or in a warm dry bor- 

 der, and defended from cold, &c. 



This 



