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ftocli Aout Fourlnches above the binding-, and in March
following, having cut off the liubb that was left of the
flock, and the cyon underneath, clofe the grafted place, .
that it may fobfifl by the Hock only.
This manner of grafting agrees heft with vines, pome¬
granates, oranges, and fuch like fbrubs.
When the (lock and cyon are of the fame bignefs, the
■operation of whip-grafting is performed, by doping the
flock and cyon about an inch, fa as to make them lit, and
then tying them together, and claying the place,
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Hor-beds for radirtaes and fpring-carrots fltoulc! now
he made, according to the direftions given for a common
hot-bed in the preceding month; which, by proper ma-
oagement, will do for all forts of leeds that are annual.
To make a mufhrum bed, dig a trench five or fix inch¬
es deep, and lay in it either the dung of horfes, mules,
or afl'es, in ridges, which dung mud be the lad covering
before the earth is laid'en.
The bed, when it is complete, mud be three or four
feet high ; and after covering the dung about two or
three inches deep with fuch earth as is taken from under
a turf, put fome mulhroom-earth all over the bed on the
lad covering of dung.
Should the weather be fevere, you may defend the bed
-with draw or dry litter, eight or ten inches thick, or
cover it with masts fadened on hoops.
The bed mud be kept properly watered, twice or thrice
a-week, and the mulhrooms will come up in two months
time at farthed ; fometimes in a month, when they mud
be immediately cut.
By putting fome mudiroom earth on your cucumber-
beds, you will greatly forward their growth.
In the natural ground potatoes love a fandy foil; and
the fmaller roots, or knots of them, are commonly faved
to raife a crop from, being fet about four or five inches
deep in the ground, and five or fix inches apart; and
when their haulms begin to decay, which is generally a-
’ bout Michaelmas, you may take them out of the ground
with forks as you have occafion to ufe them.
The Jerufalem artichoke fucceeds bed in a diff foil,
and affords a root as large as an ordinary turnip, being
in tade fomewhat like a potatoe, but rather more wa¬
tery.
The feveral forts of cabbages, as the red cabbage, the
Dutch cabbage, the Savoy cabbage, the Ruflia cabbage,
the Batterfea cabbage, and the two forts of the fugar-
loaf cabbage, Ihould be planted at proper didances, ac¬
cording to their feveral datures.
The Savoy cabbages are for winter ufe, and towards
the fpring put forth fprouts preferable to the cabbages
-themfelves.
Almod any ground will ferve for cabbages; but if the
weather be dry, it mud be well watered before planting.
The harded cabbages may be taken up before the
great frods come on; and after they have hung up by the
roots about a fortnight, lay them in a cellar, where they
will keep a long time ; or plant them deep in the ground
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dofe to one another, and cover them with haulm or draw,
till you have occafion to ufe them.
Carrots are mod prcfperous in a light ground. La
which their roots will grow to a great bignefs.
Spring-carrots are fown in July or Augud ; thofe in¬
tended for a winter-crop, in February or March, in dry
weather.
When your carrots are come up, and have been above
ground about a month, they mud be houghed, leaving the
fpace of about five inches between the plants ; and after
tire fird houghing they (hould be kept as clean as.pofiible
till they are full grown, when they may be taken up for
prefent ufe, and kept in fitnd during the winter.
Parfnips thrive bed in a rich foil, and, excepting that
they fhould not (land fo thick, are to be managed in the
fame manner as carrots.
The fkirret requires a light, moift, yet a rich foil; and
is propagated either by fowing feeds, or by tranfplanting
theoffsets fiom the roots,
As foon as the leaves begin to put forth, they lhauld
be taken out of the ground, and parted into as many flips
as can be conveniently taken off with the roots, fo as
only the frefh fpringing fibres remain on thepi; drills a-
bout four or five inches deep mud then be prepared:t®
plant them five or fix inches apart, and they mud be kept
well watered till their roots are fully grown.
The ufual time for fowing turnips is in July or Augud,
but fome people fow them in this month, by way of pro¬
viding them for the dimmer. They thrive bell in a fandy,
loam'y foil, but will grow in any ground : when the
plants have two or three leaves, they fliould be houghed
at the diltance prefcribed for parfnips and carrots.
Onions are down in this month, and in March, in rich
garden foil; and toward the latter end of April, being
come up, they are houghed, when about three inches
{hould be left between the plants till they begin to grow
fit for fallads, and then they may be drawn, or thinned
where they grow too clofe together.
In fowing onions you mud not be fparing of feeds, as
it often happens many of them, being bad, have no ef¬
fect.
When the leaves begin t© change their colour, they
fhould be pulled up, (in dry weather;) and after being-well
dried without doors, they mud be fpread on fome floor, to
dry more thoroughly for winter ufe.
Such onions as fpire in the houfe, may this month be
planted in lines fix inches apart, and two inches didance
for feeds for another year.
The leek is fown in a well-wrought ground, and is to
be kept free from weeds, and houghed like the onion ; the
plants are t-ranfplanted in July, in rich light foil, in lines
about five inches apart.
’Strawberries profper mod in ground inclining to clay ;
and the bed way of managing them, is to provide a quan¬
tity of horfe-dung and coal-afhes well mixed together,
and lay it upon the land to be dug or trenched in this
month; then make borders three feet wide, on which the
flips are to be planted from eight to eighteen inches apart,
according to the forts: the chila drawberries being lar¬
ged, ftiould be fet two feet afunder.
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