May.] The Kitchen Garden. 213 



Carrots and Parfneps, 



Carrots and parfneps will now be advancing fail: in their 

 growth, and they fhould be properh^ encouraged ; clear 

 them from weeds, and thin the plants out to due dif- 

 tances. 



This work may be done either by hand or hoe ; thofe 

 that can ufe the fmall hoe, will find it the moft expedi- 

 tious method of cleaning and thinning thefe plants ; and 

 befides, by loofening the furface of the ground with the 

 hoe, it will greatly promote the free growth of the plants. 



However, at any rate, let thefe plants be cleaned, and 

 thinned out at proper diicances, that they may have full 

 liberty to grow at top knd fvvell at bottom. Thin them 

 out, therefore, the general crops, to about fix or feven 

 inches diftance at leail, and cut down all weeds. There 

 is nothing like allowing thefe plants room enough, for 

 then their roots will be large, long, and llraight ; the 

 parfneps in particular, if thinned to ten or twelve inches 

 diftance, the roots will fwell confiderably laige, and at- 

 tain their utmpft perfection. 



Such crops of carrots, however, as are intended to be 

 drawn gradually for the table while young, need not be 

 thinned at firft to more than four or five inches dillance ; 

 as by a gradual thinning out the larger, for ufe, the rell 

 will gain more and more roo.-n daily. 



But the main crops of carrots that you intend fhall re- 

 main to grow to full fize, Ihould be: thinned to the proper 

 diilance at once, fetting them out full fix or (tvtn inches 

 apart at leaft ; but if eight or ten inches every way sBfun- 

 der, the better. 



So--vjing Carrots. 

 Carrot-feed may ilill be fown where required ; it will 

 grow freely, and the plants will come up foon, and they 

 will be ready to draw for the table by the latter end .of/ 

 Jiily, or foon in Auguft, and continue in fine order all 

 the autumn feafon. 



Onions. 

 The crops of onions fhould, towards the middle or lat- 

 ter end of this month, be perfectly well cleared from 

 weeds ; and the plants, when three or four inclies high, 



fhould. 



