The TraEtkal Kitchen Gar diner, 



nel, (ire. the fourth day ; lettuce, if the 

 weather be good, or on a hot-bed, the 

 fifth or fixth 5 the cucumber, melon and 

 gourd, the feventh 5 the beet, in the 

 fummer, comes up in fix days, in the 

 winter in ten 5 atriplex in eight 5 the 

 leek in ten or twelve 5 but the onion, 

 to which I add the carrot, parfnip, ^r. 

 not till after nineteen or twenty days 

 fowing ; the origamim and coriander, in 

 thirty ; but the apium or parfley, as Tli- 

 ny obferves, is the moft difficult of all, 

 it being forty days a fpringing, when it 

 comes the quickefl:, and fifty, generally 

 fpeaking. Some kinds of feeds fpring 

 quickeft (fays this antient author) when 

 it is the neweft> as the cucumber and 

 gourd j but parfley, beet, cardamum, 

 miganum and coriander, when old i it 

 being remarkable alfo in the beet, that 

 it will produce two or three years fol- 

 lowing after one another ; for which 

 reafon it is propagated with great eafe. 



Some there arc that produce but once 

 a year, fome oftner, as parfley, leek, c^r. 

 for thefe being once planted, produce 

 with an irrefiftible fertility for many 

 years. 



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