New Principles of Gardening. 
Year after. And in order to have this Plantation of a long 
Duration, you muft every third Year lay on the Beds a good 
Coat ‘of Horfe Dung, ce.'well rotted, which Work fhould ‘be 
done at the end of Oéfober} or: beginning of November, and 
at the fame time the Alleys digg’d up, and fpread over the 
Dung to preferve the faline Particles from being exhaufted by 
the Sun, Wind, ec. — , is] 
A Plantation cultivated ling tothefe Direétions, will pro- 
duce the very beft of Afparagus in great Quantity, and con- 
tinue thirty Years, and up 
wards. Having thus demonftrated 
the true Praétice of raifing A/paragus in the natural Ground 
without artificial Heats, 1 fhall in the next place explain its 
Propagation by artificial Heats, as hot Beds of Horfe Dung, cc. 
The firft Work to be done herein, \is to provide or make choice 
of a piece of Land, that was very well dunged the laft Year, and 
is very rich and mellow : Wherein plant ‘the young Seedlings | 
at the time, and in the fame manner as before directed, except- 
ing! their diftance and’ depth, uwhich« herein need not be fo 
great; therefore if you plant ‘them in: Rows, about feven Inches 
apart, and four Inchesafunder in the Rows, with their Buds two 
or three Inches under Ground;’’tis fully: fufficient, becaufe that 
their Duration therein is but for two or three Years, or there- 
abouts 2 civ ist to 2iusp 2 inset 1019s 353 : 
Your Nurfery being thus planted of fach a-Magnitude as ‘is 
neceflaty, care:muft be taken ‘to keep them ‘clean from Weeds, 
for the: fpacéi‘of two: Years after’ planting, sat which time they 
dre often ufed“in the Hot Bed; bur for'my part, I cannot com- ~ 
mend that Prattice, having found by Experience that they pro- 
duce much finer A/paragus when let alone until the third or 
fourth Year after planting. “And in order to have plenty of 
Afparagus every Winter, viz. from the beginning of Novem- 
ber, until the end of March, ot ai Week in Aprils you mutt 
every Apri] make a new Plantation, that as you take up and 
force one Plantation this Winter, another may be coming in 
Readinef$ to fucceed that the next’ Winter, and after that ano- 
ther, and fo on. 2 Bo! ERG 
Being thus prepared with a good Stock of Plants, we will 
now proceed to the main Thing, that is, to receive a recom- 
pence for our Labour, which muft thus be acquired. 
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