3 The TraEitoal Kitchen Gardiner. 



and a half deep, or more 5 and if the 

 ground is not extraordinary good and 

 dungy already, fill up about five or fix 

 inches of the trench with good rotten 

 dung again, which will make your fel- 

 lery very rank and large, (an effential 

 quality to its goodnefs) and watering it 

 well, there let it ftand till it be a foot 

 high, and then take the opportunity of 

 a fair fine day, to begin tying and earth- 

 ing it up, with the earth that had been 

 thrown out of the trench, when the 

 fellery was firfl planted there ; but you 

 muft not earth it all up at one time, but 

 as the fellery advances in height, from 

 five or fix inches to a foot, a foot and 

 a half, or two foot, put up fomc moie 

 fine earth or fand to it, fl:ill tying it clofe 

 with mat bands to keep the earth from 

 running into the heart or middle, and 

 fo endangering the rotting of it, which 

 yet is not fo bad as endive, by which 

 means you will have a fine crop of fel- 

 lery. The beds for the firft and fecond 

 crop can t be lefs than twenty or thirty 

 yards, but the laft ought to be at leaft 

 an hundred, in all tolerable families. 



The laft, or main crop of fellery fliould 

 not be all tranfplanted out at one time, 

 X tho' 



