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And for a continual fucccffion all the 

 winter, in about three weeks more let 

 thcix be another ridge made;, and in a- 

 bout three weeks or a month more an- 

 other, moving the frames and glafles 

 from one to another, as the former beds 

 go off 5 unlefs you have enough for them 

 all, which is indeed better. A ridge of 

 ten or twelve yards long is fufficient for 

 any middling family. 



SECT. IV. CHAP. XXXIV. 



Of thofe efculent and bulbous -rooted 

 plant S:, &c. that are raisd in kitchen 

 gardens. 



HE next feftion, or clafs of cu- 



JL linary plants I fhall produce, are 

 thofe that are rais'd purely for the fake 

 of their- roots, which are fometimes 

 long, fometimes round, and fometimes 

 tuberous or grumous, as nature has dit 

 pofed them to be, but all of them very 

 ufeful in the kitchen, and for the bene- 

 fit of life. 



Thofe that have wrote of the deriva-O/z/^^^^- 

 tion of the word efculentus, tell us, it ^'^'^'^^^^^^ 

 U an adjedlive of Cicero% fo call'd {quod 



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