T!he ^raBtcal Kitcheyi Gardiner. 



perfon with a tolerable purfe or induf- 

 try may furnifh himfelf with beds and 

 glafles or bell frames, for this purpofe. 

 But I would have the gardiner go above 

 two foot deep in the procefs above- 

 mention'd, and as much as in him lies 

 undermine the bed with his fpade, and 

 thruft the dung underneath. 



Mr. T)e la ^uintinye direds, that the 

 aforegoing proceeding, in relation to 

 afparagus beds, is not to be done till 

 fome time in January^ it being in the 

 direftions of that month 5 fo that what 

 is above written is fet down, at leaft 

 fo much of it, as it was penned by that 

 moft excellent and induftrious gardiner j 

 but our writers of late are fo mild, and 

 the bufinefs of gardening is fo much 

 better known, and fo much more im- 

 proved, fince his time, and the experi- 

 ence of thefe days fhew us, that an in- 

 duftrious gardiner may well begin in 

 November or T)ecember-, as foon as he 

 has taken leave of his fummer and au- 

 tumn employ 5 for afparagus is of too 

 hardy a nature to be hurt by any little 

 cold about the beginning or middle of 

 November ; then may be allowed to be a 

 time proper to begin the aforefaid work. 



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