The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner, iji 



according to the ingenious Dr. Lifter^ 

 then (in the Thilof, TranfaSi. num. 25.) 

 inftead of covering the beds with fuch 

 nafty Utter, I fhould advife a mixture of 

 fea-cole afhes, fea-fand, oyfter-fhells burnt 

 and bruis'd, and all mix'd with a little 

 earth and rotten dung to mire them 

 with, and room to open therein, and 

 to heat and infpire the bed with new 

 and produftive vigor 5 and upon all that 

 fuperfeminating and ftrewing fome clean 

 wheat-ftraw 5 and what may not be cx- 

 peded from a bed fo drefs'd ? The third 

 year, when the afparagus is fit for cut- 

 ting, when there is fuch a top and fuch 

 a bottom, the top ought to be about 

 five or fix inches of this new earth > 

 but that is not to be apply'd till the 

 year before you cut your afparagus. 



There are fome who drefs their beds 

 with the dung of pigeons or poultry ; 

 which by reafon of its great falaciouf- 

 nefs, heats and enriches the ground be- 

 low to a very great degree, and will 

 produce ftaiks of an uncommon dimen- 

 fion, and caufe a hundred of the grafs 

 to weigh from tw^enty to twenty five 

 pounds, or more 5 but I muft leave it to 

 the difquifition of all curious palates, 



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