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spring, which are very injurious to the young plants, 

 and also to the fruit, which is then about putting forth. 



Dung that is old, and destitute of the seeds of weeds, 

 ought only to be used in manuring a kitchen-garden, 

 and the ground ought not to be ploughed, but deeply 

 dug, for all vegetables which root deeply in the ground. 

 Nothing further need be said, with regard to a kitchen- 

 garden, than that a loose mellow soil, with a southerly 

 exposure is the best ; that it ought to be kept rich ; that 

 as fast as weeds rise, they ought to be extirpated ; and 

 that no weeds ought to be suffered to go to seed within 

 the garden. 



If the garden be of a wettish or stiff soil, it will be 

 greatly benefitted by being thrown up into high ridges 

 in the fall ; at the same time, this will assist in des- 

 troying the seeds of weeds ; but particularly in des- 

 troying insects which may be breeding in the soil.- 



To destroy Insects. 



In some seasons the vegetables in our gardens are 

 almost annihilated by worms of several species. Fall 

 ploughing, or spading the ground just before frost sets 

 in, and strewing the ground with fine salt in the spring 

 some time before the seeds are sown, are said to be 

 sovereign remedies against these petty but powerful 

 depredators. 



Some vegetables are offensive to all insects ; such 

 as the elder, especially the dwarf kind, the onion, 

 tansy, and tobacco, except to the worm that preys on 

 the plant. The juice of these may therefore be ap- 

 plied, with effect, in repelling insects ; and sometimes 

 the plants themselves, while green, or when reduced to 

 powder, particularly the latter, when made into snuff. 



Set an onion in the centre of a hill of cucumbers, 



