270 The Kitchen Garden. [June. 



Clean the crops of onions, and where the plants Hand 

 too clofe let them now be properly thinned. 



This may be performed either by fiijail hoeing or hand; 

 but the former is the moll: expeditious and eifedual me- 

 thod for the benefit of the crop, being careful to thin the 

 plants with great regularity, leaving the moft promiling 

 thereof for the crop, from about three to four or five 

 inches diilance in thofe defigned for the full crop ; ob- 

 ferving the Portugal onions require more room than the 

 other kinds. 



But fuch crops as ^re intended to be culled out gra- 

 dually for ufe while young, need not bs thinned but mo- 

 derately, or only jull: where they grow in cluiiers ; and 

 afterwards in drawing them occaiion^.lly for ufe, thin them 

 re'j;ularly, leaving a fufficiency of the beft plants to Hand to 

 bulb. 



Thefe plants fliould be kept conftantly \Qiy free from 

 weeds. 



For the particular manner of cleaning and thinning 

 thefe plants, fee the work of May, 



Leeks. 

 Now tranfplant leeks; the plants will be grown to a 

 proper fize for this purpofe" by the third or fourth week 

 in the month. « 



They muil be planted in an open fpot of good ground, 

 eight inches afunder, and about fix inches from one ano- 

 ther in the row. 



Broccoli, 



Prick out from the- feed- bed, the young broccoli plants 

 which were fown in May. 



Dig for them a bed or two of good mellow ground, and 

 make the furface even ; then pur in the plants three or 

 four inches afunder every way. Water them immediate- 

 ly, and repeat it occafionally in dry weather. 



Let thera remain in this bed about a month or five 

 vyeeks, and then plant them out for good. 



Sow more broccoli feed. This fowing fhould be per- 

 fcrmed in the fecond or third week of the month ; that is, 

 if to,fucceed the plants of thofe fown in May ; but if 



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