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New Principles of Gardening. 
done, fort the large from the fpnall ones, and tye them up 
in Ropes, dc. for ufo. 
if this Work ‘is paeforsell' with great Exa@tnefS' in Refpect 
to their being thorow ‘dry, and fo kept afterwards, many of. 
them will remain found ‘and good till the middle of pri. 
About the beginning or middle of February, feveral of them. 
will begin to /pire or fhoot out, it then being their Seafon 
to be planted for Seed; and at that’ Time’ prepare a piece of 
rich mellow Land, wherein. they_may, be planted in Rows, 
about one Foot afander (that there may be Liberty to come: 
between them, to deftroy the Weeds, cc.) and in the Rows, 
four or five Inches apart. 
When the Stalks begin to-open. their globular headed Flow- 
ers, which are fucceeded by their Seed, ‘tis good to fecure 
them from the A flaults of ‘the’ Wind, with fmall Stakes placed 
in their Rows at fix or eight Feet Diftance, to which tye 
Lines-of Packthread or Bafs-Matt on cach Side the Stalks to- 
wards their rors 3 which will preferve them from Being broken 
down by the Winds. - 
When the Seed Veffels: begin: to open, gather, and dey them 
a$ directed for the Leek Seed, Se&. XXII. cc: 
Searions or Off-fets of Onions produced in the Spring, when 
tlie Onions are growing to Seed, fupply their Place till fucceed- 
ed by a frefh Crop; they are hot and dry, but not fo much. 
as the Onion 3: they quicken the Appetite, corre& Crudities, 
and promote Concodtion:. The Parts for Ufe are the bul- 
bous Part, and tender Stalks; and the Quantity to be eaten. 
in a Sallet or in Soup is at Pleafure. / 
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Of Garden-Parfley. 
1. Its Names. 
PARSLEY is called in. Greek cérwy, but this kind is 
called ctAsvey xyxraiv, viz. Apium hortenfe ; the Apothe- 
caries and Herbarifts call it Petrofelinum ; ‘tis called in High 
“Dutch antec in Low Dutch Trimen Peterfelie, in “a 
