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New Principles of Gardening. 
The Land wherein they are fown fhould be digged very 
deep, or rather trenched, and being fown about the end of 
February, ot beginning of March, will be fit to hough out a- 
bout the middle of Apri/, at which time leave them about eight 
or ten Inches afunder, which will give fufficient room for their 
being large; which they cannot be, when they are left at 
the Diftance of five or fix Inches, as direéted by a late Wri- 
ter, onthe Theorical Parts of Gardening, Part 3. Page 126. 
And as Radifhes, Lettuces, Spinage, dvc. are of a very fhort 
Duration in the Spring, therefore amongft your Parfnip Seed, 
mix their Seeds to be fown thinly,’ and thereby you may re- 
ceive their Benefit, without the leaft Prejudice to the young 
Par{nips. “Tis the common Praétice amongft many Gardiners, 
to give their Parfnips but two Houghings: But lam well af- 
fured by Experience that the oftener cither Parf{nips, Carrots, CMC. 
are houghed, the better they thrive, for the oftener that the 
-Cruft of the Earth is broke, and the deeper they are houghed, 
the more Liberty they have to fwell, which they cannot do, 
when the Ground is very hard, and baked with heat about them. 
For it isnot their being kept clear from Weeds only, which caufes 
their Growth, fo much as often and deep houghing the Sur- 
face of the Ground, which not only gives Liberty for their 
{welling but for the Rains, Heat, Gc. to act with greater 
Freedom and Power. 
To prove this, fow a piece of Parfnips, Carrots, crc. at the 
proper Seafon (as aforefaid) and when they are come up hough 
one part of them as before direéted, and only weed the other 
by hand without -houghing, keeping them both very clean 
-from Weeds, during:the whole Summer, and in O¢fodber, which 
is the Seafon to take them up, you'll find thofe that were con- 
tinually hough’d, dc. will be ten times larger and better tafted 
than the others, that were always kept clean from Weeds and 
never hough’d, and the like of other Vegetables in general. 
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