ne TraBical Kitchen Gardiner , 



ways take care to have two or three 

 dozen of old roots or ftems, not only 

 as they are to afford early heads, but 

 alfo that from thence (as from a nurfery) 

 you may draw off young fets to fcatter 

 all up and down your garden, in all va^ 

 cant places, as the London or market 

 gardiners do: But as thefe old flocks 

 will grow too large, and confequently 

 decay in three or four years, about the 

 middle of thofe four years you are to 

 plant more, that fo you may have a con- 

 flant fupply , and it is alfo proper to 

 have your new roots for fuch fupply 

 from foils of a different nature, or elfe 

 thefe, like many other of the garden- 

 produce, will degenerate and come to 

 nothing. 



They are multiply'd, as is before hint- 

 ed, by flips or off-fcts which every plant 

 of them naturally produces yearly in 

 the fpring, round its old root, and 

 which muft be taken off with care, and 

 with what fibres you poffibly can, as 

 foon as they are grown big enough y 

 leaving to each ftock three of the befl, 

 and thofe that are fituated at the far- 

 thefl diftance from each other, to head 

 for the firil crop. The diftance and me- 



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