THE SCOTS GARDENER 



Horse radish by off-sets, and lasts long too. 



The garden raddish by seed only ; for early ones 

 you may raise them in the hofcbed cases, hence you 

 may have every twenty days, with other sallading 

 through summer, because it quickly shoots for seed. 

 Sowblackradishin August and September for win- 

 ter ; these seed next season. 



Potatoesbeing cutin as many pieces as you please 

 provided there be an eye at each piece, must be 

 planted in March, five rows in a bed ; plant not deep, 

 neither in wet or stiff ground ; spend them with par s- 

 neeps, and in housing spread them only through a 

 broad floor. 



See Part I. Chap. IV. for the orderly planting of 

 kitchen-herbs. 



Weeding (I think) may be accompted the most 

 material part of gard'nery. The learned Evelyn 

 takes notice of it ; his directions are, " Weed and 

 haw betimes ; continue weeding before they run to 

 seed, which is of extraordinary importance both 

 for saving of charge, improvement of fruit, and the 

 neat maintaining of the gar dens ; wherefore," sayes 

 he, " keep your weeds down, that they grow not to 

 seed, and begin your work of hawing as soon as they 

 begin almost to peep ; by this means you will dis- 



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