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New: Principles: of Gardening. 
Bed, to fucceed thefirft, and after that-a third, dc. during the 
whole Seafon. 
If that your Earth grows dry ‘tis requifite to give it a mode- 
rate watering, which thus prepare. In fome convenient part 
of your) Bed place alarge Pan or Pail of Water; at the time 
of your covering up at Night, and by the next Morning it will 
have received fuch a Heat, as is moft natural to the Heat of 
the Bed, and may then be fprinkled about, with a watering Pot 
and Rofe, without cooling or giving any check to the ‘Heat 
of the Bed, or Growth of the Plants. 
And. as‘Heat and Moifture are the Principles of Vegetation, 
therefore never fuffer your Plants to be over dry and hot, which 
cauifes their Shoots to be very {mall and infipid, which on the 
contrary, when moderately hot and moift, are very large and of 
a delicious Tatte. 
N. B: That thofe Direétions laid down for cutting 4/para- 
us in the natural’ Ground, are to be obferved in the artificial 
Beds alfo: And the beft time for this Work is the Morning. 
“bibhEoGnobi2 ial, 
Of the white and red Beets. 
1. Their Names. as 
A Beet is called in» Latin Beta; by the Grecians xéirdovs 
réitroy, the Germans Maugolt, the Spaniards Afelgas, the 
French de la Porée, des Fotes, and Betes. 5 
> 20 Their Defcription. eb 
1, The white Bect isan Herb which produces very large, broad, 
{mooth and plain Leaves, from which afcends‘one, and fometimes 
two Stalks, of atolerable thick Subftance channel’d on the outfides, 
from whence break out {mall Shoots, which produce much 
lefler Leaves than thofe atthe Bottom, with their Clufters of 
Flowers or Bloffoms towards their extream parts, which is fuc- 
ceeded by its! uneven prickly Seed; but neither Stalk, Bloffoms, 
or Seed are produced: till the fecond Year after being fowed. 
The 
