THE SCOTS GARDENER 



bordure, watering them well until they root; so soon 

 as they turn bushy or thick of leaves in the middle, 

 tye them up regularly with matt-strings in dry 

 weather, watering them well ; and in three weeks 

 they will be fit for use, by showing you their white 

 leaves in the middle, twisting out below the tyings. 

 Lift them up, taking off the green leaves and inner 

 white leaves, they make a fine sallad. They continue 

 many years. 



Sorrall by off -sets, some also by seed, in the be- 

 ginning of Aprile, in a good fat soil, a little shade, 

 six or seven rowes in a bed, weeded all summer, and 

 cut near the ground in September. In two or three 

 years replant it in another place, for it soon impairs 

 the ground of the place appropriate for it. 



Spinage by seed only in February and March, but 

 that sowen in the beginning of August is the most 

 profitable ; cut it in the beginning of October, and 

 it will spring afresh, and be ready for spring-stoves; 

 then reserve some uncut for seed : it prospers well 

 in a very fat earth, not too dry. 



And so do beets, which are also propagated the 

 same way ; only those sowen at spring are most 

 serviceable. 



Sowbeet-card in the fattest land, and when some- 

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