rEB.] THE KITCHEN^GARDEN. 



the famiiy is considerable in proportion, and not limited to space of 

 ground, three or four acres of Kitchen-garden may be necessary ; 

 and some very large families have them of six or eight acres ex-- 

 tent. 



If the produce is intended for sale, the garden must be large in 

 proportion to the demand. 



Fences for inclosing the Ground. 



With respect to fences for inclosing the ground, it is most neces- 

 sary to have an effectual fence of some sort around the Kitchen- 

 garden, both for security of the produce, and to defend tender and 

 early crops from cutting winds. 



Previous to fencing the ground, the proper shape or form for the 

 garden is to be considered ; the most eligible form for a Kitchen- 

 garden, is that either of a square, or oblong square ; but the figure 

 may be varied, as the necessity of the case may require ; keeping, 

 however, as near as possible, to the square or oblong form, especial- 

 ly if the ground is to be fenced with materials for training fruit- 

 trees ; no other shape answers so well for that purpose ; for trial 

 having been made of circles, ovals, semi-circles, angles, Sec. none 

 succeed near so well as the square form. 



Different sorts of fences are used for inclosing this ground, as 

 walls, palings, and hedges, &c. 



Sometimes, board fences or palings, are used, both for protection 

 and for training fruit-trees to. When such are intended for 

 trees, the boarding should be tongued and closely joined, edge to 

 edge, so as to form a plane or even surface, for the commodious 

 training the branches. 



In gardens where no wallrtrees are intended, a hedge, or bank and 

 hedge, is a very proper fence ; which may be so trained, as to form 

 both an effectual fence against men and beasts, also to shelter par- 

 ticular parts of the ground for raising early crops : a hawthorn 

 hedge is the most proper, though other sorts may be used. 



No fencing, however, for a Kitchen-garden, where intended to 

 have wall trees, especially in the more northerly parts of the Union, 

 is equal to brick walls, which are considerably stronger, warmer, 

 and more durable than paling fences ; and their natural warmth, 

 together with their reflection of the sun's heat, is the most effectual 

 for the growth, and ripening of the latest and more delicate kinds of 

 fruit. 



Hot-walls for forcing by fire-heat, &c. are often erected in large 

 Kitchen-gardens ; for an account of which, see page 36. 



Preparing and hiding out the Ground. 



The whole ground should be regularly trenched two spades 

 deep; observing if the soil is poor, or of bad quality, and wants 

 amendment, either of dung, or any of the materials before men- 

 tioned, such must previously be added, and then trench- 



