62 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



soils, and if they do not too nearly approach 

 the extremes of meagre sterility and excessive 

 fertility, so much the better ; since all the 

 kinds do not exactly thrive alike in the same 

 soil ; and an opportunity would thereby be 

 afforded of placing each in that more conge- 

 nial to its nature. (See Chap. II.) 



The site should neither be high nor low, 

 sheltered nor exposed, in any extreme, for 

 the same reason, viz. that it may the more 

 generally answer all purposes. For, who do 

 we expect shall set out on the Quixotic idea 

 of making a separate nursery for each kind ? 

 or who shall resolve on planting one kind 

 only? 



I conceive, and indeed have proceeded on 

 the principle, that for a nursery of this de- 

 scription, nothing can be more eligible than 

 the spot which may also occasionally be oc- 

 cupied as a kitchen garden. That is to say, 

 if three acres of nursery be required for ac- 

 complishing the design in question ; and if 

 out-field kitchen ground* be also required 



* The eminent utility of raising common kitchen ve- 

 getables in exposed ground rather than in the more shel- 

 tered, is pretty generally acknowledged. For a full ex- 



