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CHLORTS,. or. abe. KITCHE W- GARDEN. 
E can add. phi. this Week to ‘the Ca. | | 
talogues. we have given. in the preceding, - 
oe Produés from this ufeful, Part of. the Ground © 
which remain in Seafon ;, for. it is. not Time, for |. 
olaliits whole, of. our Attention | 
muft be therefore directed , to the. -Management lf 
of the Ground,;. and. that will, confift more | 
-any to come. in. 
Hep om ‘iyourd by Colonel Stevenfon mis ae 
farther Particulars relating. to their Management, 
which we thall deliver, in his own Words. 
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“ Grays Inn, Mov: - teh 
Ss ERS BW | 
in defending from. Injuries what, there is upon it | _ 
at prefent, than j in adding to the Number of the i ( 
Crops. , 
Spring long to come. 
few Things which may occafionally be done, and ! 
thefe we fhall not omit to lay, before. the practical | 
Reader. 
If the Weather Be oe and the coe too | 
hard for working, let the careful Gardener take 
his Opportunity of Preparing for a more favour- | 
fon. ° 
Wheté® the tirana will want 2 Refrefhment — 
of Manure, let him now carry it in, and throw it, 
not in Heaps, as fome idly do; but fpread it 
over the whole Surface of that Part of the 
Ground for which it is wanted. By this Means 
it will be more affected ‘by the Froft;, which will 
anfwer an excellent Purpofe . in taking off the © 
Ranknefs of it, and preventing the bad Tafte it 
otherwife gives to the Products. 
Let him, within Doors, look over his Seeds 
which will be requir’d i in Spring, and perfectly 
clean and make them ready for ufing at that 
Seafon. 
Let him look over his Tools, and repair and 
Hindrance. 
From Time to Time let him look over the fe- 
veral Products that are in Danger from Froft,, and 
repeat and continue all the Means we have directed 
for their Prefervation. | | 
if the Weather be milder, let him fow earrots | 
in fome warm Part of the Ground, to.take their 
Chance; and let him open Drills for Peafe; and 
plant fome more Beans to come in, if the Frofts 
fhould fpare them, in Succeffion, after thofe we 
~ have before directed to be put into the Ground. - 
No large Piece fhould be allotted to thefe Plan- 
for they are only made to ‘take their 
Chance, which is uncertain; and in their beft 
Succefs they make but a very {mall Part of the 
Provifion under this Article. 
"Nothing will demand more Care, at this Sea- 
fon, than our Augupe Beans: and all new Pro- 
BY, fhotld be allow’d the faireft Trial. 
~ Since the Publication of our laft Number, we 
“What we are faid of ‘the Fruit ‘Garden, | is, | 
in general, true alfo of this Part; That the two — 
great Seafons of Planting, are ‘the Autumn and | 
the Spring : ‘the Autumnal Time i is over, and the ; 
But there are yet fome 
‘fubmit to your Judgment. 
‘Find by what Mr. Oporne has communicated 
you did; and whofe great Fault is to arrogate Per- 
fection therein, by oppoling any farther Improve- 
‘ment from others. 
| As the Battle of the Beans muft be fought, I 
fhould be forry to have involved you in it, with- 
out contributing all in my Power to its Succefs. 
Therefore what I would farther chiefly guard 
againft, is, the Admiffion of the cold, moift, and 
frofty Air of Winter into the Pipes of the Stalk 
after Amputation. 
‘To prevent this, I would advife they be all 
-ftop’d with fmall Plugs of tough Clay, well tem- 
per’d with a gentle Salt-Water; and that the 
‘Stalks of all vith as derive from the Seed, planted 
from the Middle of Auguft to the Middle of Sep- 
tember, be, when preparing to bloffom, cut 
| & to me, you are ‘engaged in a defenfive War _ 
iat the all-fufficient Mr. Millar, whofe greateft 
“Merit was to have’ wrote on this Subject before 
Noy. 
off about Mid-way of the Stalk, fo as to leave | 
fome Leaves, if not fome Side Branches or late 
collateral Shoots from the Root; to encourage a 
‘moderate Continuation. of the Attraction of Sap 
from the Root. 
_ Thefe collateral Cyons from the ous (which 
are very frequent) need not be lopped, till there 
| is an apparent Preparation in them for bloffoming, 
"put them in good Order, that when the Weather — 
- permits him to work, he may do At without 
but then the Knife fhould gradually prevent their 
too great Exhauftion from the Parent Root. ‘The 
whole Matter is ‘to keep Life on foot till Spring, 
after the Roots have been well eftablithed and ar- 
rived’to near their Size for propagating their. Spe- 
cies, which they certainly are when preparing to 
blofiom. 
I think the Rows may'be guarded againft the 
fuperabundant Wet and Cold of Winter, by pre- 
vioufly digging out between them a Trench of 
one Spit or more deep, according to the Soil and 
Situation. But all thefe Gaulchithens I mut 
The Succefs may 
depend much on Experience, and what De- 
grees of Severity the Plant will really bear; which 
I believe has never yet been fufficiently explored, 
Lam, with great Re/peét, 
Sir, Your moft bumble Servant, 
J. STEVENSON, 
EDEN: 
