The Englijh Gardner . 
ter and mare orderly: Having planted your beds, you may 
if you will, fow a fmall fprinkling of Onions or other Sallet- 
ing for the firft Year, or you may give your beds a fmall coat 
ofDungasfoon as you have planted it, or you may forbear 
dunging until Michaelntafs or thereabout-; as for the time of 
planting, I do molf approve of the Spring, from the middle or 
end of February , to the end of April at fartheft, although there 
be fome will plant at the latter Spring, even till Winter, but 
I have oft feen that their labours have not been anfvvered with 
that fuccefs that thty hoped for, although fometimes they 
might fucceed. And to the end that you may have your 
Sparragus fair and good, you are every Year towards Winter 
to cut down theftalks dole to the Ground,and lay a final 1 coat 
of Dung thereon, the which you may take off again in March 
following, if you find the Tops of your Plants are iufficiently 
covered with mould, other wife it is beft to rake it fmooth, and 
fo let it reft : your care muft be not to cut the ftalks offtoo ear¬ 
ly, left: if the weather prove warm, it fhould fend forth new 
{hoots and weaken your Roots, fo as to be difappointedinthe 
Spring, when Sparragus is moft acceptable and uieful 5 fome 
who have their Sparragus grow on cold Grounds, and have 
fuch kinds of Dung, do beftow Hen and Pigeon Dung on their 
beds: Takenotice, that rotten Dung is beft for the purpofe, 
which if your Sparragus were a very tender thing , then your 
light ftraw Dung were of greateft refpeft 5 alfo it would prove 
worth your labour if your Ground be apt tq bind, or lubjeift 
to fitch Weeds as you cannot ealily weed out in an ordinary 
way, once in a Year or two to take the advantage when the 
Ground is frozen about an Inch or two deep, with a ftrong 
three-tined Fork or a Mattock, being carefully ufed to break 
uptheGround all over your Sparragus beds,and fo let it lie un¬ 
til it bev/ell mellowed}, and then when it is thawed, you may 
pick it clean from Weeds,and level it again 5 and if you think 
fit,beftow a coat of Dung upon your beds, by which means one v 
dunging may prove worth two } you may fomctimes fee m 
London? Sparragus much earlier than its natural feafbn, which 
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