22 8 The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner, 



I might add a great deal in this chap- 

 ter, concerning the methods to be ta- 

 ken, in the prefervation and keeping 

 of beans; but that will be found more 

 particularly treated of in the next chap- 

 ter, concerning the method of raifing 

 peafe: But I muft not omit one particu- 

 lar method of fowing or planting thcfe 

 legumes, and which will ferve for peafe 

 as well as beans j and that is, the low- 

 ing or planting them on thofe ridges 

 that are thrown up in mending the 

 ground in ^December 5 let tliofe ridges 

 be trcnch'd up, and laid in full, or at right 

 angles againft the iun, as it fhines in win- 

 ter time J or rather early in the fpring, 

 in February or March^ at one or two a 

 clock ; and the trenches or piked ridges 

 being as high as poflible, fow your peafe 

 and beans on the funny-fide, about half 

 way down the hill or ridge, and then 

 that part of the hill or ridge that is on 

 the backfide will preferve the peafe and 

 beans, whilft young and tender, from 

 thofe cutting Eallerly or North-Eaft winds 

 that difappoint us fo often in thofe 

 months ; and the flope below them will 

 draw off the fuperfluous moifturc from 

 rotting them, and they will be the eafier 



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