344 The Kitchen Garden. [July. 



common, open, or field cole-worts are now banifhedmcfl 

 gardens ; and the advantage of fowing the above fort of 

 feed ig, that fuch plants as are not ufed by way of cole- 

 worts, may be permitted to Hand ; and fuch of them as 

 do not run up to feed in the fpring, will cabbage at a 

 very early time. 



To have coleworts for autumn and winter ufe, fov/ 

 fome feed the latter end of June, or the f.rfl week in this 

 month ; and from that fowing, they will be fit for ufe 

 early in Odlober, November, and December. 



But let it be obferved, that if you defire to have the 

 plants principally for fpring ufe, the feed muft not be 

 fcwed before the third or fourth week in this month, as 

 if ffwed fooner, they will be apt to fiy up to feed early 

 in fpring. 



As to the order of fowing and planting thefe diiterent 

 crops of cole-worts ; prepare for each lowing an open 

 fpot of good ground, and divide it into beds four feet 

 wide. Sow the fjcd therein moderately thick, and rake 

 it >n regularly. The plants v/ill come up in about a 

 week, and will be grown pretty flrong in Augull and 

 September, and are then to be tranfplanted. They muft 

 be planted out in rows, a foot afunder, and about eight 

 inches diftant from each other in the row j but fee the 

 work of Auguil and September. 



Pull Ofiions, 



Examine towards the latter end of this month, the 

 forwardeft crops of bulbing onions. When their leaves 

 begin to wither, it is then the proper time to take the 

 roots out of the ground. 



But it is rare that thefe roots are fit to take up in this 

 month ; but if they be, they mull be managed in the 

 following manner, which will ferve alfo as directions 

 for the fame work next month, when the onions in ge- 

 neral will be iit to draw for keeping. 



Thefe roots muft be taken up in dry weather ; and as 

 you take them up pull off their leaves, only obferving 

 to leave to each onion four or *;live inches of the ftalk. 

 As fcon as taken up, they fliould be fpread to harden 

 upon a clean aid diy fpot of ground; and there let 

 them lie twelve days or a fortnight, remembering to turn 

 them once^every tw© or three days, ihat they may dry 

 and harden regularly. 



When- 



