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The ordering of tbs Kitchen garden. 
they pull vp where they grow too thicke, fpending them fird, and fo taking vp from 
time to time, vntill they (land two foote in funder one from another, and'beginne 
to fpindle and fhoorevp for feede. In this is vied fomearte to make the plants ftrong 
to giue the better feede without danger ol rotting or fpoyling with the wet, which of- 
ten happeneth to thofc about whom this caution is not obferued : Before your Let ticc 
is (hot vp, marke out the choyfeft and ftrongeft plantes which are fitted to grow for 
feede, andfromthofe when they are afootehigh, ftrippe away with your hand the 
leaues that gro w lowed vpon the ftalke next the ground, which might ror, fpoyle or 
hinder them from bearing fo good feede; which when it is neere to be ripe, the dalkes 
rauft be cut offabout the middle, and lay de vpon mats or clothes in the Stinne, that'ic 
may there fully ripen and be gathered ; for it would be blowneaway with the winde 
if it Ihould be futfered to abide on the dalkes long. Parfneps mud be fowen on a deep 
trenched mellow ground, otherwife they may run to feede the firft ycarc, which then 
arc nothing worth : or clfe the rootes will be fmall ftaruelings and Ihort, and runne in- 
to many fpires or branches, whereby they will not bee of halfe the worth. Somcvfe 
tofowthem in Auguft and September, that fo they may bee well growne to feme ro 
fpend in Lent following, but their bell time is in February, that the Summers growth 
may make them the fairer and greater. When they runne vp to feede, you (halltake 
the principali or middle heades, for thofe carry the Mailer feede, which is the beft^nd 
will produce the faired rootes againe. Y ou (hall hardly haue all the feede ripe at one 
inftant,for vfually the chiefeft heads will be fallen before the other are ripe : you mud 
therefore dill looke them ouer,and cut them as they ripen.Carrots are vfually fowen 
in March andAprill, and if it chance that fome of them doe runne vp for feede the 
fame year, they are to be weeded out, for neyther the feed nor roots of them are good: 
You mud likewife pull them vp when they arc too thicke^ if you will haue them grow 
fair, or for feed, that they may grow at the lead three or fourefoot in funder:the dalkes 
of Carrots arc limber,and fall do wne to rhegroun d 5 they mud therefore be fuftained 
by poles layde acrolTe ondalkcs thrud into the ground, and tyed to the poles and 
dalkes to keepe them vp from rotting or fpoyling vpon the ground : the feed hereofis 
not all ripe at once, but mud be tended and gatheredas it ripeneth, and layd to dry in 
fome dry chamber or floorc,and then beaten out with a dick, and winnowed from the 
refufe. T urneps are fowne by themfelues vpon a good ground in the end of Iuly,and 
beginning ol Augud, to haue their rootes bed to fpend in winter • for it often happe- 
neth that thofe feedes of Turneps that are fowen in the Spring, runne vp to feede the 
fame yeare, and then It is not accounted good. Many doe vfe to fow Turneps on thofe 
grounds from whence the fame yeare they haue taken off Reddilh and Lettice,to make 
thegreater profit of the ground.by hauing two crops of increafeinoneyearc. The 
dalkes of Turneps will bend downe to the ground, as Carrots doe, but yet mud not 
be bound or ordered in that manner, but differed to grow without daking or binding, 
fo as they grow of fome good didancein funder : when the feede beginneth to grow 
ripe, be very carefull to preferue it from the birds, which will be mod bufie to deuour 
them. You (hall vnderdand likewife that many doeaccountthebed wayto hauethe 
faired and mod principali feede from all t hefe fore- recited herbes, that after they are 
fowen, and rifen to a reafonable growth, they be tranlplanted into frelhground.Cab- 
bagesalfo are not only fowen forthevfeof their heads to fpend formear, buttoga- 
ther their feede likewife, which howfoeuer fome haue endeauoured to doc, yet few 
haue gained good feede, becaufe our lharpe hard frodes in winter haue fpoyled and 
rotted their ftockes they preferaed for the purpofe ; but others liaue found out a bet- 
ter and a more fure way, which is, to take vp your docks that are fitted to be preferued, 
and bring them into the houfe, and there wrap them ey ther in clothes, or other things 
to defendthem from the cold, and hang them vp in a dry placc,vntillthebeginning of 
March following, then planting themintheground, and a little defend them at the 
firft with draw cad ouer them from the cold nights, thereby you may be fure to haue 
perfedlgood feede, if yourkindebeof thebed : Soweyourfeed inthemoncthsof 
February or March, and tranfplant them in May where they may dand to grow for 
yourvfe, bur be carefull to kill thewormesorCatcrpillersthatelfewill deuoure all 
your leaues, and be carefull alfo that none of the leaues bee broken in the planting, or 
otherwife rubbed, for that oftentimes hindereth the well clofing of them. Leekes are 
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