T'he TraBkal Kitchen Gardiner. 337 



SECT. VIII. CHAP. LXIIL 



Of kitchen garden feeds 5 a general ac- 

 count of the time of their fpr outings 

 fhapesy &c. 



IT will be of no fmall import to gen- 

 tlemen and gardiners, that they are 

 made acquainted with the nature and 

 property of garden feeds and plants, their 

 time of fprouting, fhape, manner of pro- 

 pagation, ^c. all which will much con- 

 tribute to their fatisfaclion in ail kitchen 

 garden produdlions. 



Tlinj himfelf, lib. 19. cap. 7. gives a 

 fhort sketch of the times that all feeds 

 fprout in , which, becaufe no body has 

 done it before, I fhall tranQate, for the 

 benefit of my reader, with fome altera- 

 tion, advifing my reader that the foil he 

 wrought in, was undoubtedly two or 

 three days more early than ours j fvveet 

 bafil, blite, the turnep, burner, ^c, 

 appear above ground the third day. To 

 which we may alfo add, from later ex- 

 perience, the radifh, garden crelTes, muf- 

 tard, &c. tho' Tliny allows them five or 

 fix days time to fprout in 5 dill, fen- 

 Z nd. 



