426 KITCHEN «ARDEN DISPLAYED. 



Where thefe plants are required, fow the 

 feed in a hot-bed the middle or end of March, 

 or in April ; and when the plants are two or 

 three inches high, iffome are pricked in ano- 

 ther hot-bed, or in the fame where raifed, ihey 

 will advance in a flronger growth for trans- 

 planting ; or fome may be pricked fingly in 

 fmall pots plunged in the hot-bed, to be more 

 readily tranfplanted, with balls of earth to 

 the roots. In the middle or latter end of 

 May, or beginning of June, plant them with 

 balls of earth into South borders, to have the 

 full fun to ripen the fruit more effe<flually ; or 

 planted clofe to fouth walls. Give water ; 

 and in cold nights, defend them with hand- 

 glafies, or large garden pots, the firil week 

 or fortnight. 



When the plants (hoot into flalks a foot or 

 two long, thofe near walls may be nailed 

 thereto in a fpreading order, or trained in the? 

 fame manner to flakes. They will extend 

 feveral feet in length, and produce fruit in 

 Auguil: and September, in large bunches, 

 ripening in September and Ddober ; and may 

 then be gathered as wanted : and fome late 

 fruit gathered in Oftober, and hung up in the 

 bunches in a warm room, for ufe in Novem- 

 ber, &c, or fome may be gathered, both whea 

 green and ripe, to pickle. 



To fave fped, gather fome of the ripeft fruit 

 in Autumn, clear out the feed, waih and dry 

 it thoipughly, then put up in paper bags, &c. 



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