June] The Kitchen Garden. 269 



Carrots and Parfneps, 



The crops of carrots and parfneps now demand parti- 

 cular care. 



They muft be cleared thoroughly from weeds, and let 

 the plants, where they itinJ too thick, be thinned out to 

 proper diilances ; but let this be done in due time ; for 

 it is a great advantage to thefe plants to alldw them timely 

 room to grow. 



Let tht-m be thinned regularly, aHowing fix or eight 

 inches dli^ance between plant and plant. 



But in thinning the carrots, it will be proper to obferve 

 the fime rule as dire^fted in May j that is, let thofe which 

 are to Hand to take their full growth, be allowed the fame 

 dirtance between plant and plant as above mentioned ; 

 but where the carrots are intended to be drawn while 

 young, thin them only to about four cr five inches dif- 

 tance from one another at prcfcnt, and when arrived to a 

 quarter or half an inch fize, may thin them by degrees 

 ibr ufe. 



Red Beet, 



The crop of red beet fliould be thinned and cleared 

 from weeds. 



The feeds of thefe plants are often fown In drills, ten 

 inches or a foot afunder, and it is a very good way j and 

 \vhere«that method was pradifed, you can now readily 

 clear out the weeds and thin the plants; obferving to thin 

 them to ten or twelve inches diitance in the rows, fo that 

 they may ftand that diilance every way from one another. 



Alfo where the feed was fown broad-cail, fo as the plants 

 ftand promifcuoufly, they muft likewife be cut out to 

 tlie above diltance, and the roots v/ill grow to a larg? 

 fize. 



White and green Beet. 



White and green beet are propagated only for their 

 leaves, which are ufed in foups ; and fometimes, when 

 the leaves of the large white beet are grown to a large 

 fize, they are by fcm.e ilripped to the mid-rib, which is 

 alfo peeled and ftevved, and eaten like afparagus. 



Thefe plants muft alfo be allowed good room to grow, 

 for their leaves fpread a great way ; let them therefore b« 

 thinned to the fame diftance advifed for the red beet. 



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