it as for other ale, omitting the hops; and when
the liquor boils, put in half a bushel of fine wormwood, a bushel of
scurvy grass, and twelve pounds of sugar. This quantity of ingredients
is sufficient for a hogshead.

SEA-KALE is a highly nutritious and palatable culinary vegetable. It is
an early esculent plant, the young shoots of which are used somewhat in
the manner of asparagus, and may, it is said, be grown by the method of
cultivation which is given hereafter, to a size and of a delicacy of
flavour greatly superior to that which is commonly brought to the table.
In the cultivation of it in the garden, the improved method which has
lately been advised, is that of preparing the ground for it by trenching
it two feet and a half deep, about the close of the year or in the
beginning of it: when not that depth naturally, and of a light quality,
it is to be made so by artificial means, such as the applying of a
suitable proportion of fine white sand, and very rotten vegetable mould:
if the ground be wet in the winter season, it should be completely
drained, that no water may stagnate in it near the bottom of the
cultivated mould, as the strength of the plants depends upon the dryness
and richness of the bottom soil. After which the ground is to be
divided into beds, four feet in width, with alleys of eighteen inches
between them; then, at the distance of every two feet each way, five or
six seeds are to be sown, in a circle of about four inches diameter, to
the depth of two inches. This business should be performed in a strictly
regular and exact manner, as the plants are afterwards to be covered by
means of pots for blanching them, and the health and beauty of the crops
equally depend upon their standing at regular distances. If the seeds
which were sown were sound and perfect, they will come up and shew
themselves in the last spring or beginning summer months; which as soon
as they have made three or four leaves, all but three of the strongest
and best plants should be taken away from each circle; planting out
those which are pulled up, which, when done by a careful hand, may be
performed so as for them to have the whole of their tap-root in a spare
bed for extra forcing, or the repairs of accidents. The turnip fly and
wire worm are to be carefully guarded against, the latter by picking
them by the hand from out of the ground, and the former by the use of
lime laid round the young plants in a circle. When the summ