7he Tm£lical Kitchen Gardiner, 



And laftly, thofe that ceafe to be ufe- 

 ful after their firft produftion, are all 

 lettuces, common-endivej, peas, beans, 

 cardons, mellons, cucumbers, citruls or 

 pumpkins, onions, leeks, cellery, ar- 

 rach or orage, and all plants whofe roots 

 are only in ufe^ as red-beets, carrots, 

 &c. 



Now to give you a particular account 

 of the culture that belongs to every fe- 

 veral fort of plant, I muft tell you, that 

 this culture confifls, firft, in obferving 

 the diftances they are to be placed at 

 one from the other 5 the fecond, in the 

 trimming of fuch as need it , third, in 

 planting them in the fituation and dif- 

 pofition which they require 5 fourth, in 

 giving them thofe alliftances which fome 

 of them have need of to bring them to 

 perfedion, or which are convenient for 

 thenij whether it be by tying up, or 

 wrapping about, or earthing up, or o- 

 therwife covering them, &c. 



Peas, common and kidney or French 

 beans, fhould be in good foil, at leaft 

 three foot afunder in their rows? in in- 

 different, two and an half. 



Parfnips, carrots, turnips, and all ef- 

 culents, fhould be from four to fix inches 

 3 ■ afunder 5 



