i8o The Gardeners Kalendar. Jiffne* 



fhould not be tranfplanted, for they rarely are 

 good for any thing, being very fubjed to run 

 to feed, before they arrive to any fize. 



The Broccoli which v^as fov^n in May, 

 fhould be nov;^ pricked out into beds at about 

 three inches afunder, where they will grow 

 ftrong, in order for planting out the next 

 month i for where they are fuffered to grow in 

 the feed-bed too long, they draw up weak, and 

 never produce fo good heads as thofe which are 

 (hort and ftrong in the ftems. 



Weed and thin the plants in your Cucum- 

 ber holes which were fown for pickling, ob- 

 ferving to leave but four of the ftrongeft and 

 beft fituated plants in each hole ^ and at the 

 fame time earth up their ilianks, which will 

 greatly ftrengthen them ; and give them fome 

 water to fettle the earth about them. 



Plant out Cardoons for good, allowing each 

 plant four feet of room, otherwife they cannot 

 be earthed up fo high as they will require when 

 they are fully grown. 



In dry v/eather, gather feeds of all thofe forts 

 that are ripe, fpreading them upon mats or 

 cloth to dry, before they are rubbed or beaten 

 out of their hufks or pods. 



Gather herbs for drying of fuch forts as are 



now in flower, 'viz. Carduus Benedidus, 



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