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fpring-efculents, are not to be tranf- 

 planted at all, but cleared of weeds, and 

 fet out at reafonable diftances with a 

 hoe, or by weeding women, and you 

 will have them in all the perfedion that 

 this herb is capable of 5 but at the fame 

 time as you fow them, there fhould like- 

 wife be fown fome on a good warm 

 border under a wall, for fear the fum- 

 mer fhould turn very wet and dafhy ; 

 and thefe fhould be tied up in dry fair 

 weather 3 and if the fummer fliould prove, 

 as it often happens in England^ wet and 

 untoward, and the lettuce fhould be in 

 danger of being rotted, it would do well 

 to have them fcreened a little with 

 frames of reed j but this fo feldom hap- 

 pens, that I need not caution againft it. 



When you hoe them, or plant them 

 out, the diftance ought to be according 

 to the fize of the kind you fow or plant 

 out 5 the Imperial, Silefia and cofs let- 

 tuces can't have lefs than a foot diftance 

 to plant them out in 5 while the com- 

 mon cabbage, T>utchy and other kinds 

 that are fmaller, will do well enough 

 fix or feven inches afunder, Jjnd eight 

 or nine at moft. 



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