THese Roots are set in good Mould after the manner of Cucumbers, and must be well watered at their first appearing: When you per∣ceive a Pompion to be kerned, and Grown pretty [ 40] big, and that the Runner shoots forwards and pro∣duceth another about a Yard beyond it, lay the Runner about half a Foot in the Ground and it will shoot out Roots and nourish the other Pompion, for that next the Root intercepts all the Sap from tie other, so that in Two or Three Days it will pin•• away; and observing this Rule you may have Nine or Ten upon a Root, otherwise not a∣bove Two or Three.
MEKINGS and GOVRDS are not much [ 50] unlike unto Pompions and require the same order∣ing.
Of Onions, Leeks, Garlick, Shalots, with Sal∣lating and Potherbs.
ONIONS are of several Sorts, viz. Strasburgh Onions, the Red Spanish, and the White Spanish, the French that comes from S•••• Omers, and the English Onion.
They delight in a fine, fat and warm Mould; they are sown in March, or beginning of April; [ 60] If they are not sown with an even Hand they will be in some places too thick, and in others too thin; then where they are too thick let them be drawn up and planted in the thin places: When they are grown to some reasonable bigness bend down the Blades, which will make the Heads the larger. They must be kept well weeded, otherwise they will not come to good perfect∣ion.
In August they are usually ripe, then gather them up, and lay them in the Sun to dry on a Blanket; then make them up in Ropes and hang them up, or lay them on some boarded Floor for your use.
The Strasburgh is reckoned the best.