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the borders where we plant out winter 

 or early crops, docs well here 5 for thofe 

 long dungs lying hollow, drain up all 

 fuperfluous moifture, which would other- 

 wife rot the fibres, and fpoil the head. 

 But to proceed. 



The chief feafon of all for fowing of 

 lettuce feeds, and when we are to dif- 

 play all or moft of our kinds, is about 

 the beginning of February^ on our old 

 hot-beds, or new ones moderately heat- 

 ed, well glaffed, and all in order to pre- 

 ferve them from the rigour of the wea- 

 ther that happens in this and the fucceed- 

 ing month. 



They are to be pricked out with care 

 under frames or beJls, in the beginning 

 or middle of March-, to fucceed thofe 

 that were preferv'd all the winter, in A- 

 fril and the beginning of May, 



But the laft and greateft of the fpring 

 lo wings, and which is to fupply the grofs 

 of any family all the fummer, are thofe 

 that are fowed in open ground amongft 

 your young afparagus, carrot beds, (^c, 

 in March., the produce of which will be 

 wonderful, if the foil be good, and well 

 meliorated with dung. Thefe being mix d 

 with radifhes, carrotS;, and all othei: 



fpring- 



