SECT. XV. OF ESCULENTS* £C$S 



vellow is bed, though the white is moft commonly 

 the fort ufed. Sow beets in February or March, thinly, 

 either in drills or broad call, and hoe them to a foot 

 aftmder : They run to feed the fecond year. A little 

 alfo may be fown, early in autumn, for late fpring ufe ; 

 but they will be final 1. The red fort is cultivated for 

 its roc!, and is preferved in winter, in dry fand, as 

 carrots are; and of this there; is a turnip ihaped fort, 

 that fuits bell in heavy lhallow- foils, and a long rooted 

 fort proper for light and deep ones: Beets, but prin- 

 cipally the red, require a rich foil. 



Boorc'oi.e, or rale, is a hardy green, of which we 

 have two principal forts, green and brown, and a little 

 variety is in the leaf, as plain, curled, variegated: The 

 latter is a pretty vegetable when growing, but not fo 

 hardy, or fo pleafant, at table as the other forts. 



Some fow two crops of this green at the end of 

 March and of April, but one fowing may fuffice ; and 

 fchfe fir ft day of April, or at lead in the firft week, is 

 the belt time. Sow in an open fltuation, and in cool 

 ground, and thin the plants in time, that they may be 

 robuft, and able to fupport themfeives. 



This green ihould be planted out in rows a yard 

 afunder, and two feet apart in the rows, having been 

 previoufly pricked out from the feed bed, at fix inches 

 for five or fix weeks, to obtain ftrength for final planting 

 in June or July. 



Let boorcole, and all fummer planted things, have a 

 good watering at the time, and a'gain in a few days, 

 it the weather proves dry; and before winter let them 

 be well earthed up to fupport the plants, from the wind 

 and fnow, that are apt to break them down, or at lead, 

 to fet them awry; which, when it happens, ihould be 

 attended to, to fix them upright again; obferve this 

 of all other winter greens. 



The heads of boorcole may be cut in winter, and 

 the fprouts come full in fpring; but the heads ihould 

 be fro ft bitten firft The fprouts Ihould only be 



topped 



