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The other and laft method of forcing The laji 

 afparagus, is on hot-beds made at feve- ^^^'^^^ < 

 ral times, from the beginning of No-parlgJi' 

 *vember to the beginning or middle of 

 February that you may have them fuc~ 

 cellively one after another, till the fea- 

 fon permits, when nature will produce 

 them of her own accord. This Mon£ 

 la §luintinye tells us, in his month- 

 ly produdion of TO>ecember 5 a work of 

 no inconfiderable pains and expence § 

 but the pleafure of feeing, in the midft 

 of the fevereft froft and fnow> abun- 

 dance of afparagus grow both thick and 

 green, and every way moft excellent;, 

 is great enough for to take us off from 

 grudging at our coft and trouble. And 

 it may be truly faid, (fays that haughty 

 potager, in praife of his great matter,) 

 that was then a privilege hardly belong- 

 ing to any but his great mafter 5 tho' 

 now we can fhew them thoufands up- 

 on thoufands in the gardens of our la- 

 borious neat-houfe men. 



But to proceed in the method of 

 forcing afparagus on hot- beds made on 

 purpofe. You are, in the firft place, to 

 raife or procure roots that are proper for 

 it, of about three or four years old at 



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