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rake it in ; and when the plants are up two or 

 three inches in Summer, tranfplant them 

 bii^hteen inches apart, to have room to fpread. 

 The leaves will acquire a large fpreading 

 growth, proper for gathering the fame year; 

 generally cutting the large outward ones, the 

 ©thers will advance to fucceed them in proper 

 growth for ufe as wanted. 



To fave feed, permit fome old plants to ruA 

 in the Spring; they will produce plenty in 

 Autumn. 



CORN-SALLAD, 



(^ORNSALLAD, or Lamb's-Lettuce, is 

 2. fmall annual plant, raifed every year 

 from feed, growing with a .low tuft of fmall 

 oblong leaves ; the parts ufed, principally i^ 

 Winter and early Spring, in fallads, as fub- 

 ftitute for common lettuce, or as required : 

 being very hardy to ftand the Winter ; and for 

 which is generally fowed in Augiilt, the 

 plants to remain where fowed, and thinned 

 moderately. 



One or two fmall crops are fufficient ; an 

 Autumn fowlng, in Augiiil and September, to 

 ftand the Winter, and a fmailer portion fowed 

 in Spring, if required in continuance in that 

 {e:\fon. 



But generally fow the principal crop in Aui 

 gull and September, in any beds or borders 

 of common earth, and rake in the feed; and 

 when the plants are up, if they ftand thiclc^ 

 thin ihcm two or three inches afunder, that 



they 



