•OF ESTULENTS. 



SECT. XV. 



turns yellow in autumn, clearing of weeds, ftirring the 

 ground, and covering the whole over with about aa 

 inch of rotten dung before evety winter, which is to 

 be forked in at fpr'mg, not to hint the plants, and 

 covered w r ith fome parings ol the mould from the alleys, 

 which fhould after wards be dug over, if no crop is in 

 them to prevent it. It may feem, that an addition 

 every year to the beds might fink the crowns of the 

 plants too low; but it is their nature to rife as they 

 grow. Befides the rotten dung, as above, there may 

 be laid fome long litter over the beds, before fevere 

 weather fets in; but the covering of afparagus beds is 

 not fimply to keep out frofr, (which will not hurt them 

 without much wet) but to keep them warm, that the 

 buds may be forward at fpring. A Jlurnp ought to be 

 kept at each fcorner of the beds, to fhew their bounds,, 

 and as maiks to pare the alleys up by, which (generally) 

 fhould lay three or four inches lower. 



The cutting heads of afparagus ihould be carefully 

 performed, not to injure adjoining buds that are Part- 

 ing up. Move the mould a little afide to fee, and then 

 clofe by the head, and with a little Hope, cut it off 

 about three inches below the ground. The knife 

 fhould have a long r arrow blade, and a proper one is 

 indented with teeth as a Jaw. It may be cut, when 

 from two to four inches high; and let it be regularly 

 done as foon as ready: II it is lain by in a cool place, 

 as in a dairy or cellar, it will keep very well three 

 or four days. 



Six rods of well planted ground will produce, in 

 the full feafon, about a hundred a day; and this, as a 

 rule will help to determine how much room a private 

 family mould allot for this vegetable. 



Beans we have fevend forts of, differing in fize, 

 colour, flower, flavour, hardinefs, and time of coming 

 in. Of the forward beans, the niazagan is generally 

 preferred, as the earlieft, hardieft, moll produ&ive, 

 and pleafant. The Portugal ranks next to it, Of the 



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