New Principles of Gardening. 15 
When this Plant is planted at the foot of Standard Trees, 
or clofe under Hedges of Elm, Hornbeam, eye. they make a 
very agreeable and plealfant Figure, being tyed up in and about 
the fame... Their Branches are many, and incapable of fupport- 
ing their own Weight, and therefore require help. 
Their Nature is, to extend themfelves a very great way from 
their Roots, and delight in a rich moift Soil. 
Their Leaves are of a round Form and light green Colour, 
and in Tafte and Smell like unto the Garden Crefles, 
The Flowers are difperfed throughout the whole Plant, of 
a yellow Colour, intermixed with Purple; having aSpur or Tail, 
exactly as the Lark{pur or Larkhee!, but much larger. The Seed 
is rough, of a brown Colour, and in Form very like unto the 
Beet, but f{maller. 
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Of Cucumbers. 
HE Cucumbers raifed on hot Beds, having hitherto plenti- 
fully furnith’d our Tables, we may now make {mall 
Holes in the natural Ground, and be plentifully ferved there- 
from. ) ‘ 
The only care to be obferved herein is, that the Ground be 
tolerably rich, and if not, to be made fo, 
The Manner of performing the fame is as follows, Firft, 
fet out the diftance of your Holes, which ought to be about 
four Feet (fquare) from one another; then if the Ground was 
dug before, open {mall Holes about eighteen Inches over, and 
one Spit deep, and therein throw a Spit or two of good rot- 
ten Horfe-dung, which work in and mix very well with the 
Earth, and having workd it very fine, form it with a Con- 
cavity like unto a Bafon, as termed by Gardiners, viz. hol- 
low like unto a Difh to receive the Water: And therein fow 
at leaft ten or a dozen Seeds, at about two) Inches apart from 
cach other, and the like Depth; for: ’tis much better to have 
too many Plants than too few; and if the Seafon be very dry 
at the time of fowing, ‘twill not be improper to give the 
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