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This done, ftretch the line, and with a fpade mark 

 cat thr rlieys about eighteen or twenty inches, or two 

 1 ct v/jcic, according to the width they were at firft made. 



Then dig the alleys one fpade deep, and fpread the 

 e .rth, at leaft the greateil part of it, neatly over the 

 befs; and, as you advance in digging, let the weeds, 

 V. ;.lch vvere raked ofFjthe beds into the alleys, be digged 

 into tne bottom of the trench, and cover them a proper 

 depch with earth. In digging thefe alleys, obferve to 

 do it in a neritmanner : that is, let an equal quantity of 

 earih be laid over every bed, and make the edges of the 

 beds full and flrait; the alleys fhould all be of an equal 

 depth, and the i'urface left even and regular. 



But as old afparagus beds will need an augment of 

 dung once in two or three years, and that when defigned 

 to-aflift them therewith, this is the time todo it; but the 

 manure or dung mufi be applied before the alleys arc 

 digged or the beds landed up. 



The dung for that purpofe muft be very rotten, and 

 alfo very good ; none is nacre proper than the dung of 

 old cucumber or melon beds ; this mull be fpread over 

 the beds when the haulm and weeds are cleared off; let 

 the dung be well broken, and lay it an equal thicknefs 

 in every part ; then dig the alleys as above direded, and 

 fpread a due quantity of the earth of each alley over the 

 dung. 



When the afparagus beds have thus had their winter 

 dreiTmg, there may be planted in each alley a row of 

 coleivorts, or cabbage plants; fet the plants fix or eight 

 inches diftant in the row. 



in this fituation fuch plants will, even in fevere win- 

 ters, fometimes furvive the froll ; v/hen thofe which are • 

 planted in an open or level fpot are deitroyed. 



Or there may be planted in each alley a row of early- 

 garden beans. 



Drejjtng the Jfparagus beds for Forcing. 



The afparagus which is intended for forcing, fhould 

 alfo now have their ilalks cut down, and the weeds drawn 

 off the beds into the alleys, as above, in the common 

 afparagus beds ; then dig the alleys to bury the weeds ; 

 and as you proceed, fpread a little of the earth alfo ov*r 

 the beds. 



But 



