4» OF THE CULTIVATION 4E6T. IV. 



different nourifhment: fo that after a full crop of one 

 thing, one of another kind may often be immediately 

 fown ; but it mould be contrived that a wide crop may 

 follow a clofe one, and contrariwifc. 



Chfe crops, as onions, leeks, carrots, Sec. are con- 

 veniently and neatly cultivated in beds of from four 

 to five feet widths, with alleys of a foot to eighteen 

 inches between them. 



The feafins proper for furniming the ground with 

 every particular vegetable, fhould be well attended to, 

 that each may be obtained as early as its nature will 

 permit ; and of the feeds and plants we ufe, care mud 

 be taken to procure the bejl of the kind, left after all 

 the trouble of cultivation, difappointment as to quality 

 fhould enfue. 



The quantity fown and planted is (in a degree) to be 

 determined by the portion of ground that can be (pared ; 

 but it fhould be always a rule, to fow and plant more 

 than probably enough, as more may happen to be 

 wanted than expected, and a crofs fcafon or other 

 accident, may occafiou a failure. As exact rules can- 

 not be laid down, the exercife of a little judgment will 

 be neceflary, in order to proportion crops aright; for to 

 have .too much of one thing, and too little of another, is 

 ciifagreeable, and difcreditablc. Refpect fhould be paid 

 to the natural duration of crops, fome going off foon, 

 and others being lading, and that too according to the 

 fcafon they are propagated in* See, Of propagation, iu 

 the next feet ion. 



Seeds and plants fhould be adapted at much as pof- 

 fible to the J oil and fituation which beft fuits them ; for 

 in the fame garden fome difference will be found, not 

 only as to fun and fhelter, but the earth ; as fome will 

 be richer* fome poorer, fome deeper, fome fhallower, 

 and fom.e (perhaps) heavier, fome lighter, in due atten- 

 tion to which, advantage is to be reaped. 



Let the ground really on all ©ccafions be 'well dug. 



I J \edin* 



