8 The Gardeners Kalendar. Jan. 



weeks or a month after thofe which were raifed 

 in autumn, provided the young plants are 

 planted upon a frefh hot-bed as foon as they 

 are fit to remove, to bring them forward. In 

 Hke manner you fliould alfo raife lome Cabbage 

 plants, when your firfl crop has been deftroyed. 

 For want of this care to fow feeds of thefe after 

 very fevere winters, many times people have 

 loft all the forward feafon, fo have not had a 

 fupply of thefe things for the table till very late 

 in the fummer. 



The Afparagos-beds, which were made the 

 lad month, will now begin to have fome buds 

 appear, when you mufl earth them the full 

 thicknefs over the crown of the roots, which 

 fl:iould be five or fix inches at leaft ; and the 

 frames fliould now be put over them : but if 

 you find the heat of the bed begin to decline, 

 it will be neceflary to add fome hot dung round 

 the fides (which, in the gardeners phrafe, is 

 called lining the beds); this will renew the heat 

 of the bed, and bring the Afparagus forward ; 

 you fliould obferve alfo to cover the glailes 

 put over the beds with mats and ftraw every 

 night, and in bad weather, and when there is 

 no appearance of fun, the covering may remain 

 on all the day, till the Afparagus appears again 

 through the earth with \\ hich is was laft co- 

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