KITCHEN GARDEN DISPLAYED. 4I7 



LEEKS. 



Broad Leave d. 

 Narrow Leaved. 



'J^HE leek is a biennial plant, raifed cver^ 

 year from feed in the Spring, both to 

 remain and trmfplant ; is a moll ufeful efcu- 

 leet, wholly eavable, both in the bottom. 

 Deck part, and leaves, ufed for foups, broths, 

 Aewing, and to boil and eat like greens ; in 

 he& pejrfeO'on the end of Autumn, all Win- 

 ter and Spring, till April or May. 



it ihould be cultivated in principal cropsj 

 either feme fowed thinly with onions, and 

 when the latter are gathered off in Augult, 

 the leeks have room for their full growth ; or 

 may be wholly fowed in beds, both for fome 

 to traalplant, and the reil to remain, and 

 thinned to regular diftances. 



Sow the feed in the end of February, or in 

 Jkiarch, for the main fupply ; alfo fow in 

 -April and May for late crops ; fowing in four 

 leet wide beds of good rich, earth, and rake in 

 the feed; and when the plants are advanced 

 three- er four inches iti growth, in ?vTay 

 and J\ii\t, weed and thin them moderately ; 

 and when deligned for tranfplanting, they are 

 proper for this when five or lix to eight or 

 ten inches high, in June, July, and Augu(i-,x 

 and for which thin out a conliderabie quantity 

 }n Hiovvery weather; prune the long weak 



