New Principles of Gardening. 
6. The Quantity in Sallets. 
The Quantity eaten with other Herbs is at Pleafure, as alfo 
in Drink, &&e. 
7. The Cultivation. , 
The Seed gather'd when ripe in Fume or Fuly, may be fown 
on a frefh Border any time in the Spring; it delights in a 
moift Soil wihch is not fully expofed to the Sun. 
8. 6.C. 7: . Xn 
Of Sellery. 
HERE is no Herb adds fo rich a Flavour to our Spring 
Sallets, as blanch’d Sellery. It is a Herb generoufly 
hot, and very eafily propagated. To defcribe this Herb would 
be a needle{s work, feeing that its great Ufe has made it. uni- 
verfally known to every one; and therefore I fhall pafs over 
that, and proceed to the Propagation thercof. 
To have Sellery very early, ‘tis beft to fow the Seed upon 
an old decay’d Hot-Bed at the end of February or beginning 
of March, and when the Sced iscome up, and about three 
Inches high, or thereabouts, prepare a Border of a light and 
rich Nature, or rather a decay’d Hot-Bed, and therein prick 
out the young Plants at four Inches apart, giving them good 
Waterings when required. 
Having thus tranfplanted them out, when they are about 
feven or eight Inches high, and become good ftrong Plants, 
you muft then plant them out for good, which perform as fol- 
lows, viz. Having made choice of a good piece of Land pro- 
per for the purpofe , ftrain a Line the whole length thereof, 
which chop out with your Spade, and then remove it parallel 
to the firft, at about cight or ten Inches diftance, viz. equal 
to the breadth of one Spit. 
That being done, dig out the firft Spit, about eight or nine 
Inches deep, throwing the Earth on each fide of the Trench, 
and about three Feet from the firft Trench, dig a fecond, and 
after 
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