SECT. IV. OF A GARDEN. 47 



grow too rampant and rank flavoured. Carrots it 

 cankers, and it difagrees with many things; it is apt 

 alfo to make the ground parch, and burn the crops 

 fown upon it in a hot fummer. On thefe accounts 

 fome perfons have been induced to drefs their gardens 

 only with rich frefh earth; which, if they do not over- 

 crop, will do very well, being accompanied with good 

 tillage; which alone is of much ufe and is eflential to 

 due cultivation. Vegetables are always Jweeter, the 

 lefs dung is ufed, and little need be ufed, when the 

 natural foil is good and deep ; for the earth may be fo 

 dug, that what is at the top one year may be at the 

 bottom the next : which is a manoeuvre evidently advan- 

 tageous, as a good part of the flrength of the top foil 

 wafhes downwards: The method juft recommended, 

 of letting dung lie on the furface for a time, is good 

 alfo, as it abates the ranknefs of it. 



If the ground is in proper hearty every fpot may be 

 contrived to be conjianily and fuccefs fully cropped. 

 The common gardeners about London, and other great 

 towns, who give high rents for their land, contrive 

 (manuring well) a fuccejjion of crops, one under ano- 

 ther very dexteroufly; and this fort of conduct mould 

 be imitated by private perfons. Thus a little fpot, in 

 ikilful and induitrious hands, (hall be much more 

 productive than a much greater under contrary ma- 

 nagement: But when hard worked, the foil will not do 

 without a good deal of dung. 



A caution rauft be obferved, for if plants grow 

 crowding thick, it defeats the end' in view ; and fruit 

 borders mufl not be much cropped, furnifhing them 

 chiefly with fmall plants, of fhort duration, and fu- 

 perficial growth, left the roots of the trees be too much 

 robbed and fhaded. 



Have an eye on vacant ground, either forimmediate 

 ufe, or to prepare it for future. 



In the occupation of ground, the change of crops 

 will be proper, as each fort of plant draws a Jomewhat 



different 



