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cut or broken off for that purpofe } they have a large feafon, 
even from one end of the year to the other $ chiefly the 
Spring, the better the ground, the Ipeedier will your profit 
be. 
Tarragon is increafed by fetting the tops or flips, but beft: 
and fooneft by fprouts that run from the roots, which it 
doth yield indifferent plentiful if the ground be good , if 
the tops or ftalks be cut down towards the Winter, and 
a little rotten dung laid on it, it will caufe it tofpring the 
luftier and better in the Spring, when it is chiefly in ufe either 
of it felf, withOyl, or amongft other Sallet herbs: the fea-. 
Ibn is the Spring, if you let it of tops or branches, keep it 
moift until it hath taken root. 
French or Kidney-beans may be let any time, from the 
beginning of Aprils to the middle of May 5 they are fomething 
tender, therefore they that would low them to have them 
with thefirft, are to low them on a pretty warm-bed, or fo as. 
you may defend them in cafe of cold, or cold wet weather j 
and when the weather is pretty mild they may Plant them 
out in ranges Or rows,about fevenor eight inches or lels a fun¬ 
der,and about fifteen plant-inches bettweeneach row, and to 
water them at firft planting they are very apt to grow if the 
weather be warm,and when they are well taken,you may flick 
them with pretty tall flicks if the ground be very good, two 
rows of flicks to three rows of Beans, or you may flick a few 
fhorter fti:ks in the middle row , if you love fuch kinds of 
fruit as this, then it will be a very good way to provide your 
felf of that fort of Peafe called 
Sugar Peafe, which is to be dreft and eaten after the lame 
manner as French Beans, and may be fown earlier, and be 
fit to fpend before the French Beans are ready, you may fow 
them.in February or M arch, and flick them as French Beans: 
Both thefe and French Beans being gathered young, Ipend 
thefweeter and better. 
The gray kind I take to be the beft. 
White or curled Endive, if it be fown to Still, and 
that 
