

THE ORDERING 



OF THE KITCHEN 



GARDEN. 



461 





CHAP. I. 



The fittitition of a Kitchen Garden, or Garden of Herbes, and -what fort of 

 manure is Jittejl to lielpe the decaying of the foyle thereof. 



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Auing giuen you the beft rules and inftruclions that I can for your 

 flower Garden, and all the flowers that are fit to furnifh it, I now 

 proceede to your herbe garden, which is not of the leaft refpecl 

 belonging to any mans houfe, nor vtterly to bee neglecled for the 

 many vtilities are to be had from it, both for the Matters profit and 

 pleafure, and the meynies content and nourifhment : all which if 

 I (hould here fet down, I had a large field to wander in, and matter 

 fufficient to entreat of, but this worke permitteth not that libertie : 

 and I thinke there are but few but eyther know it already, or conceiue it fufficiently in 

 their minds. Faffing therefore no further in fuch difcourfes, I come to the matter in 

 hand, which is to (hew you where the fitteft place is for an herbe garden. As before I 

 (hewed you that the beautie of any worthy houfe is much the more commended for 

 the pleafant fituation of the garden of flowers, or of pleafure, to be in the fight and full 

 prof peel of all the chiefe and choifeft roomes of the houfe ; fo contrariwife, your herbe 

 garden (hould bee on the one or other fide of the houfe, and thofe beft and choyfe 

 roomes : for the many different fents that arife from the herbes, as Cabbages, Onions, 

 &c. are fcarce well pleafing to perfume the lodgings of any houfe ; and the many ouer- 

 tures and breaches as it were of many of the beds thereof, which muft neceffarily bee, 

 are alfo as little pleafant to the fight. But for priuate mens houfes, who muft like their 

 habitations as they fall vnto them, and cannot haue time or meanes to alter them, they 

 muft make a vertue of neceffity, and conuert their places to their beft aduantage, by 

 making their profit their chiefeft pleafure, and making one place ferue for all vfes. The 

 choyce of ground for this Garden, is (as I faid before) where it is fat, fertill and good, 

 there needeth the leffe labour and coft : and contrariwife, where it is cold, wet, dry or 

 barren, there muft bee the more helpes ftill added to keepe it in heart. For this Garden 

 by reafon of the much and continuall ftirring therein, the herbes and rootes drawing 

 out the fubftance of the fertilitie thereof more aboundantly then in the former, muft 

 be continually holpen with foyle, or elfe few things of goodneffe or worth will come 

 forward therein. The liable foyle of horfes is beft and more proper for any colde 

 grounds, for being the hotteft, it will caufe any the feedes for this Garden to prof per 

 well, and be more forward then in any other ground that is not fo holpen. The rtable 

 foyle of Cattell is of a colder and moifter nature, and is therefore more proper for 



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