4.62 The ordering of the Kitchen Garden. 



the hot fandy or grauelly grounds, and although it bee longer before it bee brought to 

 mould then that of horfes, yet it will outlaft it more then twice fo long. Let euery one 

 therefore take according to the nature of the ground fuch helpes as are moft fit and 

 conuenient, as I haue here and before mewed. But I doe here ingenuoufly confefle my 

 opinion of thefe forcings and helpings of ground, that howfoeuer it doth much good 

 to fome particular things, which becaufe they delight in heate, and cannot be brought 

 to perfection without it in this our Countrey, which is colder then their naturall from 

 whence they are brought, muft therefore haue artificiall helpes to forward them ; yet 

 for many other things the comport doth much alter and abate the naturall vigour, and 

 quickenefle of tafte, that is perceiued in them that grow in a naturall fat or fandy foile 

 that is not fo holpen. 



CHAP. II. 



'The forme of a Garden of lierbes for neceffary vfes, 

 with the ordering thereof. 



AS our former Garden of pleafure is wholly formable in euery part with 

 fquares, trayles, and knots, and to bee ftill maintained in their due forme and 

 beautie : fo on the contrary fide this Garden cannot long conferue any forme, 

 for that euery part thereof is fubiecl: to mutation and alteration. For although it is 

 conuenient that many herbes doe grow by themfelues on beds, caft out into fome pro- 

 portion fit for them, as Tyme, Hiffope, Sage, &c. yet many others may bee fowen to- 

 gether on a plot of ground of that largenefle that may ferue euery mans particular vfe 

 as he mall haue occafion to employ it, as Reddifh, Lettice and Onions, which after 

 they are growne vp together may be drawne vp and taken away, as there is occafion to 

 fpend them : but Carrots or Parfneps being fowen with others muft bee fuffered to 

 grow laft, becaufe they require a longer time before they be fit to be taken vp. Other 

 herbes require fome large compafle of ground whereon they may grow of themfelues 

 without any other herbes growing among them, as Artichokes, Cowcumbers, Melons, 

 Pompions. And fome will doe fo with their Cabbages alfo, but the beft and moft fru- 

 gall way now vfed, is to plant them round about the border of your plot or ground 

 whereon you plant Cowcumbers, Pompions, or other things, in that by this meanes 

 fo much ground will be well faued, and the other things be no whit hindered thereby, 

 which elfe a great deale of ground muft' be employed for them apart. So that by this 

 that I haue here faid, you may perceiue the forme of this Garden is for the moft part, 

 to bee ftill out of forme and order, in that the continuall taking vp of the herbes and 

 rootes that are fowen and planted, caufeth the beds or parts of this Garden to lye 

 broken, difmembered, and out of the order that at the firft it was put into. Remem- 

 ber herewithall that (as I faid before) this Garden requireth the continuall helpe of 

 foyle to be brought into it, in that, the plenty of thefe manner of herbes and rootes 

 doe fo much wafte the fertilitie and fatneffe of the ground, that without continuall 

 refreshing it would quickly become fo poore and barren, that it would not yeelde the 

 worth of the feede. The ordinary time to foyle a Garden, is to bring in manure or 

 dung before Chriftmas, and eyther bury it fome fmall depth, not too deepe, or elfe 

 to lay it vpon the ground that the winter froftes may pierce it, and then turne it fhallow 

 into the ground to fow your feeds in the Spring. 



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