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The TraEtical Kitchen Gardiner, 



nier before you fow i which trenching, 

 furrowing, or laying in ridges, fhould 

 be performed as has been before direft- 

 ed under that head, in the firft fedion 5 

 but the ground mull by no means be 

 dung*d that year, but fuch as has carried 

 collyflowers, cabbage, or fome other 

 kitchen fluff the year before, and when 

 the dung is well confum'd. 

 Seafons of There are three or four feafons where- 

 their jow^ '^^^ it is proper to fow carrots, (though 

 parfnips are always fow'd at one and 

 the fame time 5) the firfl feafon, to have 

 them all the winter, and very early in 

 the fpring, is in Augtifly under a v/arni 

 wall or reed-hedge, and in a good fan- 

 dy, or otherwifc light rich ground, or 

 old melon bed cover d a foot thick with 

 mold 5 and as they grow up, weed and 

 water them a little in dry weather, and 

 if they are fubjeft to grow too much 

 to green, tread them down, and the root 

 will grow the fairer and larger. Thcle 

 carrots will be fit to draw towards Chrijl- 

 tnasy and during ail the fpring months, 

 being what they call Michaelmas car- 

 rots 5 but when the drynefs or heat of 

 the weather in the fpring comes on, they 

 foou run t6 feed, and grow flickcy ; for 



whidi 



