266 The Kitchen Garden. [June. 



The bell endive to fow for a fall crop is the green curled 



fort; this fort is not only the beft for ufe, but the har- 



diell, for it will endure wet and cold better than any 



''Other kind. But you may likewife fow, as a variety for a 



fallad, fome of the white curled fort. 



There is a fort with broad leaves, called Batavia en- 

 dive ; this is the bell fort for ilewing ; it grows very large, 

 and, if tied up, will cabbage well, and be very white, and 

 • cats alfo well in a fallad: but this fort is not hardy, for 

 it foon rots in anvet autumn, and a moderate froit will 

 kill it. 



Let all thefe forts of endive feed be fown in an open 

 fpot, not too thick, and rake it in equally. It will be 

 proper to fow fome of this feed at two different times this 

 month, which is the only v/ay to have a regular fapply of 

 good plants. 



But for the main nutumn and winter crop, generally 

 fow about the fecond, third, and fourth week in the month ;^ 

 for that which is iowii earlier is very apt to run up for 

 feed early in autumn, and before it arrives to its full 

 growth. 



Lettuces, 



The lettuce-plnnts, which were fown in May, fhould 

 now be tranfplanted into an open fpot of good ground. 



Let this be done in moiil weather; for thefe plants will 

 not fucceed well if planted out in a dry time ; but where 

 there is a neccffiry of planting them out in dry weather, 

 let the following method be pradlifed. 



Draw, with a fmall hoe, fome ih allow drills, about a 

 foot afunder, and then plant one row of lettuces in each 

 drill, fetting the plants alfo a foot from one another, and 

 give them fome water. 



By placing thefe plants in drills, they can be more con- 

 veniently watered ; and a fmaller quantity will do, than 

 if planted on level ground, for the moifture will be much 

 Ion;er retained ; this is therefore the bell method of plant- 

 ing them at this feafon. 



So'iv Lettuce-feed. 



Sow lettuce-feed to raife fome plants to fupply the table 

 in A uguH and September. 



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