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great increafe thereof, and therefore the eafier to procure 3 
and being furnilhed therewith, you are according to your 
quantity to provide either fome Brand-pan like a Milk-pan, 
or Flower-pots, or an Y the KM' convenient thing (‘for you 
are not to fow it on Beds as other forts of feed are, or may) 
then you are to fill your pan, or like provifion,with filch rot¬ 
ten earth or mould, as is to be found in old decayed Wil¬ 
lows 3 let it be lifted, efpecially the uppermoft of it, and 
thereon fow your. Seed not over thick, for that will prove 
fome lofs if your Seed begood} then cover it with fome of 
the like lifted mould about half an inch 3 let your Situati¬ 
on be temperate, rather Shade than Sun, efpecially in the 
Spring. The Seafons are from the midll of September to the 
middle of Novemb.nt which Seafons I have had it come very 
well 31 you are to’ take fome care of them in the Spring, be¬ 
ing apt to be Ipewed or railed out of the ground, efpecial- 
ly by finall frofts hollowing the earth: fhdeed it is a Plant 
of (hallow routing, that it is very apt, though pretty well 
grown, to be turned out of the ground 3 and therefore we 
find that they do belt hold and increafe; beingpfanfced in a 
pretty foft kind of ground, otherwife a place that hath but 
little Sun, for they are ordinarily hardy enough as to cold 3 
fometimes by lowing too late or too dry, or over deep co¬ 
vered the feed, will lye until the fecond Seafoh before it ap¬ 
pears 3 but being fown m fit feafon and order, according¬ 
ly it will come up about Seven Months after 3 you may 
very much preferve your young Plants in the Spring, by 
covering them conveniently with Bals-mats, both from the 
Sun, and Frofty Mornings, let them have feafonable moifture, 
asoccafion requires 3 and when your Plants are about the 
breadth of a penny,you may prick them out in pots,or other 
the like convenient things,until they have got more ftrength 
to be planted on convenient beds, the which you are to 
trench with either new Cow- dung,or other new dung where¬ 
by the worms will not be foaptto turmhem out, until they 
have got fome convenient hold in the ground 3 in fome forts 
