New Principles of Gardening. 
3. Its Temperature. 
Horfe Radith is hot and dry in the third Degree, and has 
a drying, cleaning, digefting Quality. 
4, Its Medicinal Virtues. | 
Being eaten with Vinegar, as Sauce, it heats the Stomach, 
amd caufes a very good Digeftion. : 
- 5. The Parts for Ufe. - 
The Roots being very white, and about two Years Growth, 
are the Parts for Ufe, when f{craped, or grated very fine. 
6. The Quantity is at Pleafure. 
7, Its Cultivation. ; 
The natural Soil for Horfe Radifh is a rich fandy Loam, 
and is thus propagated. 
“Firft open a Trench as is ufual for trenching of Land 
three Fect wide, and a full Spit and half deep, and therein 
place Cuttings of Horfe Radifh, cach having two Buds at leaft, 
at about fix Inches apart; then moving your Line, fet out 
the next Trench, which muft be but haif the breadth of the 
former, and caft its Earth. to the further. Side of the firft Trench, 
without laying any Roots in this fecond. Trench, This being 
done, fet out the third Trench. equal to the firft, viz. three 
Feet, and cafting its Earth into the others, will make them 
good’; then in the bottom of this third Trench place the 
Horfe Radifh Cuttings all over at the Diftances aforefaid; and 
afterwards. fetting out a half Trench, as the fecond, caft in 
the Earth, and in like manner procced till the whole Piece is 
fo planted. ; 
This Method being obferved, you will have your young 
Shoots come up in good Order, in Beds of three Feet wide, 
with Alleys of one Foot and-half between them, which gives 
leave for their being kept clean from Weeds. 
If this Work is performed in Odfober, the young Shoots 
will be up in the Spring, and at Michaelmas {ome will be fit 
for: Ute; by the Michaelmas following, they will in general 
be fic for Ufe. 
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