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ing for fifteen years together, to bear 

 well, as otherwife they would do, never 

 fpring kindly afterwards ; and tho* they 

 be let alone two or three years after 

 the fruit heating, yet at moft are able 

 to endure but one more. 



What may be added to this, with 

 more than poffible reafon, is, that the 

 alleys of thofe beds you intended to 

 ufe in this manner ought to be at leafl: 

 three foot and a half or four foot wide, 

 and the beds not above two foot and 

 a half or three foot at moft 5 for it is a 

 great thicknefs of earth, when beds are 

 four foot wide, and the alleys but two, 

 for fuch a fmall body of dung to ftrike 

 a heat thro' it 5 as all thofe that make 

 hot-beds to raife melons, cucumbers, and 

 other things, do experience. 



It will be alfo to little purpofe to en- 

 deavour to heat beds that are old and 

 worn out, but rather thofe that are four, 

 five, fix or feven years old ; for then 

 the roots are ftrong, and able to bear 

 the heat 5 whereas thofe that are old and 

 worn out, if they fhoot at all the grafs 

 will be fmall and good for little i but 

 the roots of afparagus are fo eafily rais'dj, 

 or fo cheap to be procur d, that any 

 z perfon 



