The TraEiical Kitchen Gardiner. 575 



that the water (which is very pernicious 

 to thefc kind of plants) may run off on 

 each fide. 



After that you are to cover the bed to 

 the thicknefs of a foot more of the mold 

 you can beft procure, and then place your 

 prepared moid upon it, to three or four 

 inches half a foot in thicknefs or more, 

 then add five or fix inches of the firft mold, 

 and after all that three or four inches of 

 litter, which in the v/inter may guard it 

 from the cold, and in the fummer fliade 

 them from thofe excellive heats that fpoil 

 their (hooting at that feafon of the year. 



This work fhould be done in Atigufty 

 September, or OBober ^ as you can bcft 

 provide your earth, and then by putting 

 on of an ordinary frame , or covering 

 the Beds with hoops and matts over them, 

 you may expcd to have mufhrooms all 

 the winter, more or lefs, and one would 

 not have Icfs than ten or fifteen yards of 

 fuch bed always at work. 



What I would next recommend is the 0/ the 

 raifim^ of borecole and broccoli, both of 



, . , . r ' 1-11 bore£ole 



km to one another m ipecie 5 but widely and broc- 

 differing in quality and goodncfs. coH^ 



I have already obferv'd in treating of this 

 plant, that it is the Halmerida according 

 B b 4 to 



