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a gentle watering or two, except it rains, 

 and being come up, which it will in a- 

 bout three weeks time, keep it ftill clear 

 of weeds, and now and then a gentle 

 watering, in the manner as will be 

 taught in the chapter of watering fal- 

 lets 5 and being kept well weeded, they 

 will be fit to plant out about the begin- 

 ning or middle of May^ which may be 

 done with fuccefs by the method that 

 will be by and by fet down for ofF- 

 fets. 



Of propa- The bePt way, as has been before in- 

 ^kirntsb ^^^^^^^^^ ^^c propagating skirrets, is 

 ^off-fets. by ofF-fets, which are taken up in March^ 

 and the ofF-fets being parted from the 

 old roots, and as many parts made of 

 them, as there are flips that have roots 

 to them, not letting any of the old ones 

 remain, but only the freih fpringing fi- 

 bres j you are to drill with a large hoe 

 of four or five inches deep, and if the 

 ground is in any degree poor, put fome 

 melon mold into it, and plant them five 

 inches afunder^ for if you plant them 

 too thick, or above one flip in a place, 

 they are fo apt to encreafe, that they 

 will ftarveone another; then keep them 

 well watered till their roots be full 



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