The housekeeper's instructor, or, Universal family cook : being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches ... To which is added, the complete art of carving ... Together with directions for marketing and the management of the kitchen and fruit garden ... [etc.].

  • Henderson, W. A. (William Augustus)
Date:
[1804?]
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Credit: The housekeeper's instructor, or, Universal family cook : being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches ... To which is added, the complete art of carving ... Together with directions for marketing and the management of the kitchen and fruit garden ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hoe the lad fowed turnips eight inches diftant in the garden crop; but large forts, in fields or extenfive grounds, mull be thinned ten or twelve inches or more. Be particularly attentive to gather all feeds that are ripe before they difleminate. Many forts will now be in perfec- tion ; you mud therefore cut or pull up the dalks, bearing the feed, and lay them in the fun to dry, &c. as directed in July- September. ON- this month mud be finifhed all the principal fowings and planting neceflary this year, fome for fucceflional fupply the prefent autumn and beginning of winter, others for ge- neral winter feTvice; and fome to (land the winter for next fpring and fummer. For this purpofe, all vacant ground niufc be dug up, or occafionally manured, particularly if it is poor and defigned for principal crops. In this month likewife fome watering will be occafionally required, and great care mud be taken to dedroy the weeds. Artichokes require no particular culture now, but only to break down the fruit-dem clofc, according as the fruit is ga- thered, and hoe down the weeds among them. Give an autumn drefling to all aromatic plants, by cutting down decayed dalks or flower dems; clear the beds from weeds, and dig between fuch plants as will admit of it, or dig the'alleys, and drew fome of the earth over the beds. Afp'aragus now requires only the large weeds cleared out till next month, when the dalks mud be cut down, and the beds winter drefled. Forced afparagus for the fird winter crop may be planted in hot-beds at the latter end of this month, under frames and glafles, to cut in November; and by continuing to plant fucceffional hot-beds every month, it may be obtained in condant fupply all winter and fpring, till the production of the natural crops in May. Cauliflowers of lad month’s fovving, intended for next year’s early and main fummei’s crops, fhould now be pricked out in beds, three or four inches didance, watered, and to remain till October, then fome of them to be planted out under hand- glafles, &c. Plant out more celery in trenches; and earth up all former planted crops, repeating it once a week, two, three, or four inches high or more. Plant out likewife full crops of the two ]ad months fowing of coleworts, a foot didance, for winter and fpring fupply. Alfo endive for fucceflional crops, in a dry warm fituation, a foot didance. You may begin to dig up horfe-radifh planted in the fpring, but it will improve in its fize by continuing longer in the