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piincipally by hand, if performed then by 

 lioeing to leave the weeds, they would mollly 

 grow again. 



In Winter, if the fpinach is advanced in 

 proper growth, fome may be gathered in that 

 lealon, when, take only the large outward 

 leaves, the others will advance in fucceflioa 

 for future gathering, and may thus continue 

 gathering in Winter and the early Spring 

 months till March. 



But in A'lar^h and April, when the plants 

 advance to a large growth, ihey, if too thick, 

 may be thinned, l>y cutting out the largelt 

 plants clear to the bottom ; and as in May 

 the whole will run to fi-ed, they may then l>e 

 all cut clean cut as wanted : will be fuccecd- 

 ed by the Spring-fowed fpinach. 



To fave fpinach feed, leave in the Spring 

 cither fome of the Autumn-fowed Winter- 

 ilanding plants, or part of the Spring crops, 

 they will run to llalks, and produce feed in 

 Auguit. 



SHALLOT. 



CPIALLOT is a fmall bulbous-rooted 

 plant of the onion tribe, fcveral fmall roors 

 growing in a bunch ; railed by planting the 

 cft-feis in the Spring, each multiplying into 

 ftveial fmall oblong bulbs in a clofe chiller, 

 of proper growth to take up in July, and to 

 dry and keep for Winter and Spring. 



They are often ufed inftead of onions, as 

 ktfing of a milder agreeable taile, and not fo 



apt 



