50 OF THE CULTIVATION SECT. IV. 



exercise of a \\tt\eju4gment will be necessary, in 

 order to proportion crops aright; for to have too 

 much of one thing, and too little of another, is dis- 

 agreeable, and discreditable. Respect should be 

 paid to the natural duration of crops, some going 

 off soon, and others being lasting, and that too ac- 

 cording to the season they are propagated in. See, 

 Of propagation, in the next section* 



Seeds and plants should be adapted as much as 

 possible to the soil and situation which best suits 

 them ; for in the same garden some difference will 

 be found, not only as to sun and shelter, but the 

 earth ; as some will be richer, some poorer, some 

 deeper, some shallower, and some (perhaps) heavier, 

 some lighter, in due attention to which, advantage is 

 to be reaped. 



Let the ground really on all occasions be well 

 dug. 



Weeding in time is a material thing in culture, 

 and stirring the ground about plants ; earthing up 

 also where necessary, must be attended to ; and in 

 some cases pressing the mould to the stems of vege- 

 tables will be proper, for their better support. This 

 work done well before winter frost sets in, preserves 

 plants, forwards, and improves them. Weeds ex- 

 haust the strength of the ground, and if they are 

 suffered to seed and sow themselves, may be truly 

 called, " garden sins :" The hand and hoe are the 

 instruments for the purpose ; and where the trouble 

 is not too much, the former will generally be the 

 best, when it is not thought necessary to stir the 

 ground ; which indeed may be done afterwards, when 

 all is clean, to better purpose. Digging, where the 

 spade can go, between the rows ot plants is a good 

 method of destroying weeds, and as it cuts off tht 

 straggling fibres of growing roots, they strike afresh, 

 ia numerous new 'shoots* to the great benefit of the 



