THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



thing strong you may transplant : they seed the 

 next, not that year wherein you sow them. 



Order burrage as spinage; it's also an annual: so 

 bugloss ; but it continues many years. 



Marigold may be ordered as burrage, and white 

 arage (orach) as spinage. 



Parsley by seeds in February and March; they 

 bring forth their seeds next year, whereby they 

 must be yearly renewed. 



Sellery in a light fat soil, eight rowes in a bed, as 

 parsley; it continues long, yielding seed yearly after 

 the first; and so doth smallage and alexander : they 

 may be blanched as succery and endive. Sellery 

 sowen in March, you may transplante at mid-sum- 

 mer in a very fat fine earth, half foot deep furrowes, 

 three foot between the rowes, and four inches in 

 the rows; and as it growes up, gather the earth at 

 its sides from the intervals, leaving the top free ; 

 and still as it growes, earth it up in dry weather, so 

 shall it be blanched for a winter sallad. 



Gar leeks and shallot by off-sets in March, in a light 

 and fat soil, eight rowes in a bed: I use neither cut- 

 ting nor twisting their stalks ; but when their fibres 

 begin to rot in the latter end of August, take them 

 up, and spread to dry a little, and house them in a 



