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before, certainly it is requir'd in this, for 

 the earth in gardens is now ftrip'd of all 

 its ornaments, and the froft, which is 

 often fevere in this month, fpares no 

 body's gardens, but unmercifully deftroys 

 all it meets with, and therefore it con- 

 cerns the careful gardiner either to finifli 

 well the coverings, or to houfe all that 

 was omitted in the month of November^ 

 fuch as endive, cardons, fellery, arti- 

 choke-roots, collyflowers, beet-chards, 

 leeks, &c. 



And above all things, we muft be care- 

 ful to prefervc all thofe novelties which 

 we have begun to advance by art, as 

 peafe, beans, cabbage lettuce, and little 

 fallets, to avoid the difpleafure of feeing 

 perifh in one bitter night what we have 

 been labouring two or three irionths to 

 advance. 



Some more early peafe, for a fuccef- 

 fion, fhould now be fown; as alfo hot- 

 beds made, for lettuces to cabbage early 

 under fquare glaffcs or frames, to plant 

 out in the latter end of January y or be- 

 ginning of February, and to come in when ■ 

 the winter lettuces are going, or gone. 



But thcfe and all other lettuces ought 

 to be often vifitedj as does endive, &c. 



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