New -Principles of Gardening. 
6. The Quantity of young Shoots in an indifferent large 
Sallet to be about ten, but-the green Leaves are at Pleafure. 
7. Its Cultivation. 
Both kinds of Fennel delight.in good mellow deep Land, and 
are increafed by Seed fown*in the Spring, which was ripened at 
the end of the preceding Auguff; or it may be increafed by 
dividing the Roots, which are lafting for many Years. 
In the Spring,’ before the Root puts forth its tender Shoots, 
cover the Top. about fix Inches thick with Earth, which will 
blanch the young Shoots, as they make their Way through it, 
and will be fit:for Ufe as foon as above Ground.) 
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Of Garlick. 
1. Its Names. 
i ARLICK is called in Greek oxipoder, in Latin Allium, 
by the Germans Knoblauch, in Low ‘Dutch Look, in 
Spanifh Aios, Alho, in Italian Agho, in French Ail or Aux; 
the Bohemians call it Cze/nek, and the Englife Garlick, ox Poor 
Man's Treacle. 
2. Its Defcription. 
Garlick is a bulbous rooted Herb, covered with very thin 
Skins, (finer than Gold-Beater’s Skin) of avery light white Co- 
lour towards the Bottom, (from whence the fibrous Roots 
break forth) and of a very light purple towards the upper Part 
or Bud, from which afcends the Stalk; the Bulb, or Root con- 
fits of many {mall Cloves, which havea general Communica- 
tion at the Bottom of the Bulb: The Leaves are green, and 
in form much like unto thofe of the Leck. 
At the end of two Years its Stalk {prings up, (as aforefaid) 
beating at.its end a little Pod, which when open’d produces @ 
tuft of Flowers, covered with a white skinny Subftance, where- 
in, when ripe, are round black Seeds, but are never faved for 
any ufe. 
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