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or three inches in the ground above their Tops5 if you will, 
and the ground be good, you may have a Crop of Onions a- 
mongft your Liquorifti the firft Year, if not too thick ; fbme 
that" have but little, do cut down the withered ftalks, and 
Spread a little Dung all over their beds in Winter; if ground 
be good,it will bring good Liquorilh at two years growth; let 
the ftp be well hardened before you take it up,otherwifo it will 
fhrink and not be fo good to keep. 
Strawberries are increafed by letting of the young Roots, 
which increafe from the firings that run from the Elder-plants; 
they are to be had in V/oods, and fuch-like places, from 
whence divers furnifh themfelves as well as in Gardens; they 
are planted at diversfeafons,but chiefly at the Spring and Fall; 
but many refufe to fet them in the Spring,becaufe then there is 
a Summers Husbandry for weeding, and little or no Fruit the 
firft Year; and therefore it is that moft plant about Bartholo¬ 
mew ox Michaelmafs , and fometimes later, but fomething fbon- 
er is better, for then they'will have gotten pretty ftrength, 
and will bear both more and fairer Fruit: fet them about half 
afoot afunder, and that is nigh enough; alfo if you would 
have fair Fruit, and your bed laft good the longer without re¬ 
newing or new. planting, you muft often cut away the firings 
that run from the Roots, otherwife they will ftarve one ano¬ 
ther; alfo it will be good to new mould them a little every 
Winter, not Summer; and in cafe of dry weather it will be 
worth your labour often to water them, chiefly'in blooming 
and fruiting time, but do it throughly: where good Husband¬ 
ry is not tiled, a bed will not laft good above two or three 
Years at moft As for the great kinds of Strawberries, their. 
Husbandry differs but little, only t6 be fet and kept at a big¬ 
ger diftance, and the Root kept moulded up, and the ftalks 
for Fruit tied up, and to be kept moift in dry weather, not 
forgetting to cut their firings often. 
