KITCHEN-GARDENING. 



CHAPTER I. 



GENERAL REMARKS ON KITCHEN-GARDENING. 



PREVIOUS to preparing a kitchen-garden, the gardener should 

 provide a blank-book, and prepare a map of his ground, on 

 which he should first lay out a plan of his garden, allotting a 

 place for all the different kinds of vegetables he intends to cul- 

 tivate. As he proceeds in the business of planting his grounds, 

 if he should keep aa account of everything he does relative to 

 his garden, he would soon obtain some knowledge of the art. 

 This the writer has done for more than twenty years, and he 

 flatters himself that a publication of the results of his practice 

 will be interesting and useful to his readers. 



If gardeners would accustom themselves to record the dates 

 and particulars of their transactions relative to tillage, planting, 

 etc., they would always know when to expect their seed to 

 come up, and how to regulate their crops for succession ; and 

 when it is considered that plants of the brassica, or Cabbage 

 tribe, are apt to get infected at the roots, if too frequently t 

 planted in the same ground, and that a rotation of crops in 

 general is beneficial, it will appear evident that a complete 

 register of everything relative to culture is as essential to suc- 

 cess in the kitchen-garden as in agriculture proper. 



Those who have not a garden already formed, and cannot 

 avail themselves of such a slope of ground or quality of soil 

 as they desire, must take up with such as may be within their 

 reach. If practicable, a kitchen-garden should have a warm 

 and south-easterly exposure. But when the ground slopes to 



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