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be gathered ; but tlioie about three or four inches high 

 are hi prime order; when permitted to run much higher, 

 the top of the bud opens, and the fhoot does not eat fo 

 wdl as thofe that are cut when the head is quite clofe. 



When you cut them, be careful to thruit your knife 

 /lown clofe by the fide of the flioots you intend to cut, left 

 you wound or deftroy any young buds that arc coming up 

 and do not yet appear ; cutting the IhootJ oliF about three 

 ©r four inches within, the ground. 



Let the beds of thefe plants be now cleaned, for feed 

 weeds will now rife very thick on them. 



Taking, therefore, -opportunity of a dry day, and with 

 a fmall hand hoe cut up all weeds clean within the fur- 

 face, and they will foon all die. 



^'ranfplanfing Lettuces. 



In moift weather, tranfplant cofs lettuce, and other 

 kinds, which were fown the two former months, 



Choofe a rich fpot for thofe plants in a free open f.tua- 

 tlon, or fuch that is not mucli incumbered with trees, &c. 

 which would draw the plants up fiender without forming 

 good hearts; dig the ground neatly one fpade dit^^^, and 

 rake the furface frnooth; then put in the plants in rows, 

 ten or twelve inches afunder; and allow the fame dillance 

 between plant and plant in each row, and give fome water 

 to fettle the earth about their roots. 



Repeat the waterings as there may be occaiion, till the 

 plants have taken root. 



So-iv Lettuce feed, ' - 



Sow lettuce-feed ; this fhould be done at two or three 

 different 'times this month, that there may be a conilant 

 fupply of fuch plants as are good. ^ 



The cofs,» Silefia, and admirable cabbage-lettuce, are 

 the proper kinds to fow now; the brown Dutch, and all 

 the other kinds, will alfo fucceed. 



An open fituation mull be chofen to fow thefe feeds in, 

 and where the ground is light and rich ; fov/ each fort fe- 

 parate, and rake them in light and evenly. 



The beds wherein thefe feeds are fown, mu ft be often 

 refreihed with water, if the weather ftiould prove dry, 

 to promste a free growth, both in the feed and young 

 plants. 



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