162 The TraSiical Kitchen Gardiner. 



OBober^ you have a mind to whiten 

 them, you take the advantage of fome 

 dry day to tie up all their leaves toge- 

 ther with bands made of ftraw or long 

 litter well twifted about them, fo that 

 the air may not penetrate nor come at 

 them, except it be at the very top, which 

 is to be left open. 



Thefe plants thus tied up, will whiten 

 in about fifteen days, or three weeks, 

 and grow fit to eat. Thofe who make 

 ufe of them to any purpofe, continue 

 tying them up and covering them, till 

 the winter approaches, and then take 

 them up, and tranfplant them into the 

 green-houfe or cellar (as collyflowers are 

 fcrv'd) to have them all the winter ; 

 fome of thefe plants are good to tranf- 

 plant in the naked earth in the follow- 

 ing fpring, to feed in June and July, or 

 elfe fome of thofe plants are good to be 

 tied up in their firfl: places, and will 

 ferve for three or four times together. 



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