The TraHical Kitchen Gardiner. 407 



rais'd one under another as much or more 

 than any other the kitchen garden pro- 

 duces. 



Towards the middle or latter end ycu 

 begin in good earncft to make your beds 

 for the forcing; of afparagus 5 for the man- 

 ner of which^fee SeB. III. Chap. XXXIII. 

 I p. 172, (ire. of this treatife. 



The days being now very fhort, the in- 

 duftrious gardiner fliould employ his ap- 

 prentices and other fervants in working 

 by candle-light till fupper-time, either in 

 making of ftraw- fcreens and coverings 

 for his fruit trees, or thofepeafe and beans 

 that are grown high above the ground, 

 or in roping of onions, placing roots, 

 endive, &e. as before-mentioned, in his 

 cellars in fand; for the works of the 

 garden are many in the day-time. 



In this and the next month, ought your 

 ground that is now pretty clear (the pro- 

 duce having been carried into the con- 

 1^ fervatory or eaten) to be well dung'd ( I 

 mean thofe quarters that are in the moft 

 need of it) and laid up in ridges or trenches 

 for the whole winter; for the doing this, 

 and laying all the kitchen garden clean 

 and ready for the crops to be fown in Fe- 

 brmry and March following, before 

 Dd 4 Chrifi^ 



