1 8$ The Tra£tical Kitchen Gardiner'. 



if it be a fandy foil, the roots will grow 

 larger and larger, be much fweeter, and 

 lefs fubjeft to worms, than thofe that 

 are fown in rich garden ground, where 

 there are very feldom good-tafted car- 

 rots i they fhould be fow'd in fine wea- 

 ther (according to the old ruftic verfc) 

 and after that raked well, and then trod 

 or rowrd in, for the feed is fo very light 

 that it will be blown about any whither ; 

 for which rcafon alfo, the weather fhould 

 be ftill and quiet, or elfe your feed will 

 be blow'd on heaps, or quite away 5 and 

 amongfl: thefe, it is well known, are ge- 

 nerally fown, lettuce, radifhes, &c. and 

 fome there are that plant green cole- 

 worts thin, which are cut off foon e- 

 nough to give room and air to the young 

 roots, and as it were a guard to them 5 

 bat I can by no means allow of pcafe or 

 beans interfpers'd, becaufe they (land- 

 ing a great while amongft them, draw 

 them up weak and thin, and never root 

 well. 



Culture. In April and May they fhould be oft 

 weeded, or, which is moft: expeditious, 

 howed with little hoes about four inches 

 wide 5 and the laft howing of all they 

 fhoul4 be let at about fix or eight inches 



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