DAU 
formed on beds of four or five feet in breadth; but they may 
be made on large plats, where it is neceflary to have a large 
{pace of them, 
After the plants have attained three or a inches in 
growth, they fhould be thinned out from fix to eight inches 
ed; and be 
{mail hoe with the ees readinefs 
d: ie aes is, however. the better 
he fame time ftirred about the 
the plants. wea 
ther is dry. he crops fhould afterwards be occefionally 
looked over every fortni a or three weeks, to be further 
thinned , and to keep the weeds from rifing in 
the a 
Where thefe forts of roots are much wanted at an early 
pericd while young, it is better te fow a piece of F ground for 
the purpofe, than to denend upon n the thinnings of the ge- 
reral crops though the! may often be thinned to advantaze. 
e crops which were putin, in Anguft for the fol lowing 
oe dra fhoul! be managed in the fame way ; buat it 
lants, i in winter, when A 
bas “jared by i trols. 
Method of Culture on Hot-beds for early Uje. —lInthis me- 
thod of management, crops may be provided for early ufe, 
where thofe of the autumn ei been injured or deftroyed by 
bad weather, or othe 
n this Sn ae fowings fhould be made in the begin- 
ry a e following month, on_hot-beds 
except in the night-time, and w 
When the plants are an inch or es in height, they muft be 
thinned out to the diltance of three or - — an ia 
occafionally fupplied with water in a moderate proportio 
Vhen the heat of the beds declines mach, linings fhould 
be had récourfé to as there may ae cafion, in order to 
eeo them ina Proper ftate of gro 
see roo ae may yo come a month 
the other 
Tn order 
ith foe 
and 6 coe much ace is fuftained. 
nd to fave the feed of thefe plants, fome ie the fineft 
roots fhould be planted out abo ‘ebruary, in rows two 
feet apart, and one foot diltant from plant to plant. They 
will fhoot up to ftem in April or the following month, flower 
about June, and in Auguft the feed becomes ripe; then the 
tops fhould be cut off when dr , expofed in the fun, and af- 
ter becoming perfedtly dry, the a thrafhed out, and put 
ca into bags to be kept in a dry place for ufe. See Car- 
«  DAUCUS Carota, inthe Materia Medica. Carrots 
either boiled and mafhed to a pulp, or merely grated fine, 
form an excellent poultice to be applied, sl the vain 
tion of lint, to very foul ulcers particularly of t 
mo — d, which has a great and often ae farang 
re I, 
DAV 
effet in abating the intolerable pain, and correéting the. 
fhocking foetor that attends thefe d 
AUDIE, in Geography, a town OF Leyes 16 miles 
N. of Afewusein ne 
DAUE, or Daye, in Ancient Geography, a town. of 
Arabia. Steph. Byz 
DWAVELLA, ic wat, in Biography, a fier who 
puoli ifhed a®Rome i in 1657, a work in tol‘, entitled, * Ri- 
yro.e di Mufica,”’ in five treatifes, in which are promifed “true 
and eafy inftruclions for canto fermo, canto figurato, coun- 
terpoint, finging, and many other new and curious things,” 
by Giovanni d’Ave ola a, a friar, Rome, 1657. 
promifes in the title-page are, however, as ufua AC 
pletely fulfilled. The book is full of prejudicesin delle of 
old rules, with many that are peculiar to the auth which 
render what was before dark and difficult, ftill more eadintel 
From his ignorance © of hiftory, and the mufic of 
ancients, he advances inn numerable ‘abfurdities, giving 
The a of this moreelels 2 pablaton is given ag a 
beacon < eager colle€tors of old and curious t 
mufic, in whom the title may sieneale ‘*the rage o 
priation 
DAVENANT, Joun, an Englifh cae of confider- 
able oe in the pra bey century; .the fon 
a wealthy merchant, an in London. 
mitted penfioner of ieee collec, Cambridge, in 1587. 
Here h his degrees, and after the death of his father 
appro- 
and give their votes in . that fyno . See ae T. Dr. "Das 
venant returned from Holland in the {pring of the following 
nae of Salifbury. oo 
during the remainder of 
» he cunt the difpleafure of 
doGtrine of predeltination, in 
was fum- 
s conduét, and exprefled much con- 
trition for 
, royal commands. By this condué, which 
graceful to a man of talents, he efcaped farther trouble and 
was affured of a reconciliation, but was never afterwards ad- 
mitted tocourt. He died of a confumption, April 2 i 1641. 
He was charaCterized by his Baten porare for hofpitaity, 
k a pub- 
n Ex- 
ret’s ane or. t the 
do&trine of univerfal redemption, paar the certainty 
the elect, and that 
might, 1 
in the eat at edie: Biog. 
DavenanT, Wit#raM, a poet in an reigns of Charles 
the fon of a aS at Oxford, in 
he was born in 1665. 
vollege, B ae his ftay there was fhort, and his firft fituation } 7 
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