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mixed with other seeds, while young, or six weeks after sown, especially if with
onions on true onion ground. They are good with veal cookery, rich in soups,
excellent with hash, in May and June.
Garlicks, Though used by the French, are better adapted to the uses of medicine
than cookery.
Asparagus - The mode of cultivation belongs to gardening; your business is only
to cut and dress, the largest is best, the growth of a day sufficient, six
inches long, and cut just above the ground; many cut below the surface, under an
idea of getting tender shoots, and preserving the bed; but it enfeebles the
root: dig round it and it will be wet with the juices - but if cut above ground,
and just as the dew is going off, the sun will either reduce the juice, or send
it back to nourish the root - it is an excellent vegetable.
Parsley, of the three kinds, the thickest and branchiest is the best, is sown
among onions, or in a bed by itself, may be dried for winter use; tho' a method
which I have experienced is much better - In September I dig my roots, procure
an old thin stave dry cask, bore holes an inch diameter in every stave, 6 inches
asunder round the cask and up to the top - take first a half bushel of rich
garden mould and put into the cask, then run the roots through the staves,
leaving the branches outside, press the earth tight about the root within, and
thus continue on through the respective stories, till the cask is full; it being
filled, run an iron bar through the centre of the dirt in the cask, and fill it
with water, let it stand on the south and east side of a building till frosty
nights, then remove it. (by slinging a roap round the cask) into the cellar;
where, during the winter, I clip with my scissars the fresh parsley, which
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