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The Kitchen Garden. 497 



force the earth into their hearts and bury them, and 

 would cccafion them to rot. 



Endi've. 



Take the advantage of a dry day to tie up fome en- 

 dive, to whiten them. 



Choofe for this purpofe fome of the beft full-grown 

 plants; and when their leaves are perfeflly dry, let them 

 be gathered up regularly in your hand, and tied together 

 with a ftring of bafs. 



But if the weather is inclinable to be frolly or very 

 wet, let the following method be praftife^ to whiten 

 fome endive; which, for the fervice of a family, maybe 

 fuccefsfully praftifed. 



Draw up fome of the beft and largeft plants in a dry 

 mild day, and lay them in a dry airy place for a day or 

 two to drain off the wet from between their leaves. 



Then let fome barrows full of very dry and light earth 

 be laid into a deep garden-frame, in a ridge to the top of 

 the back part, and which fhould face the fun : then hav- 

 ing the endive, gather the leaves up evenly in your hand, 

 and Jet the plants be buried in the above earth almofl to 

 the top of their leaves; and when the weather is very wet 

 or frolly, keep the glaffes conftantly over them, and ufe 

 other cpvering occasionally. Or, for want of frames you 

 may lay fome earth in any dry open ihed ; raifmg the 

 earth in a high ridge, and fo lay the endive therein as 

 ^bove diredled ; obferving in time of hard frofl to cover 

 it with long litter. 



By the above method, you may whiten endive in any 

 of the winter months, provided you cake care to lay in a. 

 fuiEcient quantity at the approach of fevere weather. 

 , But v/here there is not the conveniency of frames, &c, 

 pra(riife the following method : 



Dig part of a v/arm dry border under a fouth wall, &c. 

 or any dry warm fituation, and as you dig throw up the 

 earth in a high and fiiarp ridge lengthways the border, 

 making the fouth fide as fteep as it will pofTibly iland. 



Then get the endive, and prepare them as above di- 

 rected. 



When this is done, the plants are then to be laid into 

 the fouth fide of the above ridge : obferve to gather the 

 leaves of every plant up clofe and regular, and put them 



into 



