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and to experience whether grafs fo large, 

 and which is dung'd with fuch a nafty 

 dung can be good, or indeed any bet- 

 ter than thofe which are rais'd at or 

 about Lambeth^ or any other part of 

 London-, which may be eafily tafted and 

 diftinguifhed from that which is fiiiallcr, 

 and is rais'd in the country, %vhi]{l the 

 other is as if it grew in a {linking dung- 

 heap, and the gardens thenifelves n:ore 

 nafty and unwholefome than any com- 

 aion-fhorc. 



SECT. III. CHAP. XXXIII. 



Of the forcing or raifing afparagus 'very 

 early, 



1 "^HE forcing and railing of afpa- 

 Jl^ ragus early, will require a chap- 

 ter it feif, it being now a matter fo 

 much in ufc, at kaft tiie manner or me- 

 thod of raifing it, in ail its degrees, is 

 too large for a chapter in fo fmall a 

 volume. 



The Dutch were the firft that brougllt 

 this method over with them out of Hoi- 

 landy and at the revolution, amongft 

 other things, with which gard'ning has 



now 



