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there will be three different crops frofn. the fame 
beds. 
When the plants come up they muff be kept dean 
from weeds, and in dry weather duly watered, to 
keep them growing till they are fit to tranfplant, when 
there fhould be tin open fpot of rich ground prepared 
to receive the plants, in fize proportionable to the 
quantity intended. When the ground is well dug and 
levelled, if it fhould be very dry, it muft be well 
watered to prepare it to receive the plants •, then the 
plants fhould be drawn up from the feed-bed care- 
fully, fo as not to break their roots, drawing out all 
the largeft plants, leaving the fmall ones to get more 
fcrength ; which, when they have room to grow, 
by taking away the large ones, they will foon do. 
As the plants are drawn up, they fhould be placed 
with their roots even, all the fame way, and every 
handful as they are drawn, fhould have the tops of 
their leaves fhortened, to make them of equal length: 
this will render the planting of them much eafier, 
than when the plants are promifcuoufly mixed, heads 
and tails : then the ground fhould be marked out in 
rows at one foot afunder, and the plants fet ten 
inches diftant in the rows, doling the earth well to 
their roots, and let them be well watered ; and repeat 
this every other evening, till the plants have taken 
good root, after which they muft be kept clean from 
weeds. 
When the plants of the feed-bed have been thus 
thinned, they fhould be well cleaned from weeds and 
watered, which will encourage the growth of the re- 
maining plants, fo that in ten days or a fortnight 
after, there may be another thinning made of the 
plants, which fhould be tranfplanted in the fame 
manner. And at about the fame diftance of time, 
the third and laft drawing of plants may be tranf- 
planted. 
Thofe plants which were the firft tranfplanted, will 
be fit to blanch by the latter end of July at fartheft ; 
and if they are properly managed, in three weeks or 
a month, they will be fufficiently blanched for ufe, j 
which will be as foon as thefe fallads are commonly 1 
required •, for during the continuance of good Cos i 
Lettuce, few perfons care for Endive in their fallads ; 
nor, indeed, is it fo proper for warm weather. If 
any of the plants fhould put out flower-ftems, they 
fhould be immediately pulled up and carried away, 
being good for nothing, fo fhould not be left to in- 
commode the neighbouring plants. As the quantity 
of roots neceffary for the fupply of a middling family 
is not very great, fo there fhould not be too many 
plants tied up to blanch at the fame time, therefore 
the largeft fhould be firft tied, and in a week after 
thofe of the next fize •, fo that there may be three 
different times of blanching the plants, on the fame 
fpot of ground. But as in fome large families there 
is a great confumption of this herb for foups, fo the 
quantities of plants fhould be proportionably greater, 
at each time of planting and blanching. The manner 
of blanching is the next thing to be treated of, 
therefore in order to this you fhould provide a parcel 
of fmall Ofier twigs (or bafs mat) to tie up fome of 
the largeft heads to blanch ; which fhould be done in 
a dry afternoon, when there is neither dew nor rain 
to moiften the leaves in the middle of the plants, 
v/hich would occafion their rotting foon after their 
being tied up. The manner of doing it is as follows, 
viz. You muft firft gather up all the inner leaves of 
the plant in a regular order, into one hand, and then 
take up thofe on the outfide that are found, pulling 
off and throwing away, all the rotten and decayed 
leaves which lie next the ground ; obferving to place 
the outfide leaves all round the middle ones, as near 
as poffiblq to the natural order of their growth, fo 
as not to crofs each other: then having got the 
whole plant clofe up in your hand, tie it up with 
the twig, bafs, &c. at about two inches below the 
top, very clofe •, and about a week after go over the 
plants again, and give them another tie about the 
middle of the plant, to prevent the heart leaves from 
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burfting but on one fide * which they are fubjedE 
to do, as the plants grow, if not prevented this 
way. 
In doing of this you need only tie up the largeft 
plants firft, and fo go over the piece once a week, 
as the plants increale in their growth ; by which, 
means you will continue the crop longer, than if they 
were all tied up at one time : for when they are quite 
blanched, which will be in three weeks or a month 
after tying, they will not hold found and good above 
ten days or a fortnight, efpecially if the feafon proves 
wet : therefore it is that I would advife to fow at 
three or four different feafons, that you may have a 
fupply as long as the weather will permit. But in. 
order to this, you muft tranfplant ail the plants of the 
laft fowing under warm walls, pales, or hedges, to 
fcreen the plants from froft ; and if the winter fhould 
prove very fharp, you fhould cover them with fome 
Peafe haulm, or fuch other light covering, which 
fhould be conftantly taken off in mild weather : thefe 
borders fhould alfo be as dry as poffible, for thefe 
plants are very fubje£t to rot, if planted in a moift foil 
in winter. 
Although I before directed the tying up of the plants 
to blanch them, yet this is only to be underftood for 
the two firft fowings ; for after Gffober, when the 
nights begin to be frofty, thofe plants which are fo 
far above ground will be liable to be much prejudiced 
thereby, especially if they are not covered in frofty 
weather • therefore the belt method is, to take up 
your plants of the latter fowings in a very dry day, 
and with a large fiat-pointed dibble, plant them into 
the fides of trenches of earth, which fhould be laid 
very upright, planting them Tideways, on the fouth 
fide of the trenches, towards the fun, with the tops 
of the plants only out of the ground, fo that the hafty 
rains may run off, and the plants be kept dry, and 
fecured from frofts. 
The plants thus planted, will be blanched fit for ufe 
in about a month or five weeks time, after which it 
will not keep good more than three weeks, before it 
will decay * you fhould therefore continue planting 
fome frefh ones into trenches every fortnight or three 
weeks, that you may have a fupply for the table j 
and thofe which were laft tranfplanted out of the feed 
beds, fhould be preferved till February, before they 
are planted to blanch •, fo that from this you may be 
fupplied until the beginning of April, or later : for 
at this laft planting into the trenches, it will keep 
longer than in winter, the days growing longer; and 
the fun, advancing with more ftrength, dries up the 
moifture much fooner than in winter, which will pre- 
vent the rotting of thefe plants ; but if the weather 
ftiould prove frofty, thefe latter plantations of Endive 
fhould be covered with mats and ftraw to preferve 
it, otherwife the froft will deftroy it, but the covering's 
muft always be taken off when the weather is fa- 
vourable. 
When your Endive is blanched enough for ufe, you 
muft dig it up with a fpade ; and after having cleared 
it from all the outfide green and decayed leaves, you 
fhould wafh it well in two or three different waters to 
clear it the better from flugs, and other vermin, 
which commonlyfnelter themfelves amongft the leaves 
thereof, and then you may ferve it up to the table 
with other fallading. 
But in order to have a fupply of good feeds for the 
next feafon, you muft look over thofe borders where 
the laft crop was tranfplanted, before you put them 
into the trenches to blanch ; and make choice of fome 
of the largeft, founded:, and moft curled plants, in 
number according to the quantity of feeds required : 
for a fmall family, a dozen of good plants will pro- 
duce feeds enough ; and for a large, two dozen or 
thirty plants. 
Thefe fhould be taken up and tranfplanted under a 
hedge or pale, at about eighteen inches diftance, in 
one row about ten inches from the hedge, &c. This . 
work fhould be clone in the beginning of March, if 
the feafon is mild, otherwife it may be deferred a 
fortnight 
