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very fmooth and round, or very much: 

 fet at the edge with prickles, both of 

 them equally good. They are fow'd ei- 

 ther in the open ground, and fo raked 

 in as you do carrots, ^c, or in drills 

 made with the hoe. The firft is the beft 

 way, if you cut it when it is old 5 but 

 the laft, if you want it to cut very young. 

 Mr. La ^dntinye tells us it is to be fow'd 

 feveral times in the year^ beginning a- 

 bout the middle of Atigtifty and tinifliing 

 a month after 5 the firfl: will be fit to cut 

 about the middle of OBobeVy thefecond 

 in Lent, and the laft in Rogation-wcck 5 

 but the pradicc of our Englijh gardi- 

 ners is to fow another crop as early in 

 the fpring as your foil and fituation will 

 permit i viz. the beginning of March 

 at leaft, under a warm wall, and in the 

 richeft foil you can pollibly fow it , for 

 all the fpinach that is fown in the au- 

 tumn is apt to run to feed with us in 

 the beginning or latter end of Aprily at 

 which time the crops laft fown comes 

 in to a good purpofe, it being a time of 

 year when all other herbs and greens 

 are fcarce and not fo well tafted as at 

 other times they are. It is well like- 

 wife, for the fame reafon^ to fow fpi- 



nage 



