count of the different Seafons. 
A COMPLEAT oo. OE Be YX, ce. 
Therefore let the firft Thinning be perform’d 
with Care; not to flack the Growth or difturb 
the others; and let thefe ftand, according to the 
Seafon, eight, ten, or fourteen Days; to fhew not 
only which of them are beft and moft promifing, 
but whether any have got Damage, in pulling 
away the others. | 
The different Time we advife them to ftand 
between the firft and fecond. Thinning, is on Ac- 
In a very favour- 
able Year a Week is fufficient; in an unfavourable 
one they muft ftand the longeft Time we have 
allow’d. | | | 
The Reason is this: There will be more Ha- 
zard of fome of them failing in an unfavourable 
Year : 
feen which are fitteft to be left for Ripening, and 
they will require to be thin’d the fooner, becaufe 
all the Nourifhment thofe take in which are to 
come off, is to the Lofs of thofe which are to 
ftand. 
Let thofe which are to come off be taken away, 
without touching the others, or even fhaking the 
Branch. This is eafily done by a flight Twit; 
and thofe which are to ftand being carefully cho- 
fen, the Gardener may now promife himfelf fo | 
many perfect Fruit. 
As to the Choice of —s the beft to leave 
upon the Tree are thofe which are beft fhap’d, 
 faireft, and have moft Leaves about them. 
- Thofe which have a good Clufter of Leaves, 
SE CT MON 
KITCHEN-GARDEW. 
or the 
CHLORIS, 
| HE Bufinefs of the preceding Weeks, dif- 
patch’d as we have directed, leave but little 
to be done in the prefent. 
There is not an Article more precarious than 
the fowing of Cauliflower Seed : fome have pre- 
tended to fix a Day for it, but that is too exact : 
from the firft to the laft Day of the prefent Week 
will be a certain Period; for it ought not to be 
done fooner than the one, or later than the other : 
but which particular Day, will depend upon the 
Weather, and the Temper of the Ground. __ 
Let the Gardener fuit the particular Day, ac- 
cording to the Dampnefs or Drynefs of the Mould, 
and the dry or fhowery Seafon. 
Let all the Heaps of Dung be broke and turn’d 
in a more favourable it will be fooner 
or a fair Shoot at the fuer Joint where they crow, 
always ripen the moft favourably. If the Leaves 
be too many, they are eafily thin’d afterwards, at 
the Gardener’s Difcretion: but thofe Fruit which 
grow at the Joints where good Clufters of them 
are, not only thrive beft. becaufe they are fhaded, 
but becaufe there is much more Juice drawn thi- 
ther than when the Fruit ftands naked. 
‘The Number being thus fix’d upon, the Man- 
ner of Thinning is to be confider’d. The com- 
mon Method is by nipping off the Fruit with the 
Thumb and a Finger; but this is very clumty. 
There are fome who ufe Sciffars,; and when they 
are of a proper Kind, that is, long and flender 
in the Blade, this anfwers very well. 
_T have fome Years us’d a kind of Sciffars made 
purpofely for this Service ; but what I have found 
beft of all is a common Penknife, with a long 
narrow Blade, very fharp at the End; this with 
a little Twift brings off the Fruit, without di- 
-fturbing any of the reft. 
Let no Confideration induce the Gardener to 
leave two Fruit fo near, as that when full-grown 
they will touch one another. They often throw 
each other off; and if this does not happen, 
they rob each other; and the Parts where they 
touch are always ill-tafted. 
We have been the more exprefs on this Head, 
-becaufe there is no Part of the Gardener’s Bufinefs 
fo ill practis’d. 
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IV. 
over this Week. They will be covered with an- 
nual Weeds at this Time: if thefe were fuffered 
to ftand longer, they would ripen and fhed their 
Seeds ; but as they will now be deftroy’d at their 
full Bignefs before that Mifchief, they will rot in 
| the Heap, and affift the Dung, by bringing on a 
new gentle Fermentation. 
If the Weather be fhowery, or there be a Prd: 
fpect of Rain, fow Turnep Seed. 
Let the Ground be very well broke and pre- 
par’d for this ; and as the Succefs depends entirely 
upon due Watering, if the Clouds refufe that, 
the Hand muft doit, and there muft be a frequent 
Repetition, with moderate Quantities at a Time. 
May. 
