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the root, producing many fprouts mod times 

 of the year. 



They are all raifed from feed, fowed ia 

 the Spring in two or three crops, from 

 March till May ; all for tranfplanting ia 

 Summer, &c. fow the feed, each fort fepa- 

 rate, in open beds of common earth, and 

 raked in reguhrly, when the plants are cva^ 

 jip with leaves an inch or two broad, thin 

 >out fome from the feed beds, and prick thena 

 in pthers in an open fituation, four inches 

 diftance, and watered ; and in which to have 

 four cr five weeks growtn, when, and »^hofe 

 in the feed beds beinc^ thinned, they will ail 

 be of good llrength fur nnal tranfplanting, 

 which perform at dilFerent times, from May, 

 cr June, till Augult, or September, taking 

 opportunity of ram, and allotting them aa 

 open compartment of ground ; tranfplant 

 them two feet and a half, or a yard afunder, 

 the iirit planting in Summer, the others ia 

 July and Augull, two feet and a half to two 

 feet will be fufficient, and the late crop 

 planted in September to (land till Spring, a 

 foot and a half, or two feet at moil is room 

 enough ; obferving, if dry weather, to water 

 them occafioaally till they take root, and 

 begin to grow. 



in their advancing growth, the only culture 

 they require is, to hoe the ground, to cut 

 down approaching weeds, and to hoe fomc 

 earth round the bottom of the ftems'of the 

 borecole once or twice, to encourage and 

 ilren^then their growth that they may ad- 

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