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New! Piineiples of: Gardening. 
yO? | 5. The Parts for Ufe.. « dy 
“The tender Leaves, when blanch’d as hereafter dire&ted. 
6. The Quantity or Proportion in a Sallet is generally two 
Roots in fmall Sallets, and more in larger, at Pleafure. 
7. Its Cultivation. 
Endive is an excellent. Winter and Spring Sallet, and highly 
deferves our Care, in refpect to its excellent Virtues before de- 
{cribed. 2 
It loves a very rich Soil, and muft be fown about the begin- 
ning of May for the firft Crop ; the beginning of une for 
the fecond; ‘the beginning of “Fuly for the third, &c. When 
it has grown in ‘the Sced Bed to a tolerable good Size, 
tranfplant it in Beds, or in fingle Rows between your Sel- 
lery at about eight Inches apart ; and when ‘tis well grown, 
take fome Baft-mat, and tye fome of it up, viz. as much as 
may be required in a Week's Ufe, and the next Week after 
tye up the like Quantity , andfo on during the whole Sea- 
fon’: But whenever you tye any up, be {ure that ’tis perfectly 
dry, or otherwife “twill immediately be rotten and difappoint 
you of your Hopes. 
The Ancient’s Method for blanching of Endive was as fol-* 
lows. ‘Firft; They fow’d their Seed in Faly and Auguft, from 
which came very good Plants, which would endure the Win- 
ter,’ and were planted out at about ‘the Diftance of feven 
or cight Inches, as practifed by the modern Gardiners: And? 
when the Winter came on, that the Endive had done grow- 
ing, they uled to take it up ina very dry Day, and bind up 
the Leaves together, with {mall Withs or Baft-mat, and then 
bury it in the Ground with the Roots upward, to prevent 
the Earth’s getting amongft the Leaves, which would inftantly 
rot them; and as they had Occafton*for them during the Win- 
ter, they ufed to take them, even at any Time, either in Froft, 
Snow, dc. ‘when they were finely blanched, and in greateft 
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This manner of preferving Endive is certainly the very beft, 
for let the Winter have ever fo much Snow, Rains and Frofts,- 
which fdon deftroy this Sallet Herb, it cannot any ways affeat, 
or damage their Leaves, being buried as aforefaid. 
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