106 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. [FEB, 



Kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, all in one, or at least often all 

 within the same general inclosure ; in which case, if any distinct 

 part of the ground is required for ornament, a portion of it next the 

 house may be laid out in a lawn or grass-plat, bounded with a shrub- 

 bery ; beyond which have the Kitchen-ground, separating it also 

 from the other with shrubbery compartments : the Kitchen-garden 

 may also be laid out with ornamental walks and borders, having a 

 broad border all round ; and next,this, a walk from five or six to eight 

 feet wide, carried all round the garden, in proportion to its size ; 

 and, if the ground is of some considerable width, may have one of 

 similar dimensions extended directly through the middle ; and next 

 the walks, have a border of four or five, to six or seven feet wide, 

 carried round the quarters or principal divisions ; which border, if 

 raised a little sloping from the front to the back part, will appear 

 better than if quite fiat ; planting a range of espalier fruit-trees 

 along towards the back edge of the border, so as immediately to 

 surround the quarters, allotting the outsides of the borders for small 

 esculents, or flowers, and small flowering shrubs, having the edges 

 planted with box, &c. or some with strawberries and other edg- 

 ing-plants, and the walks neatly laid with gravel, or other ma- 

 terials before-mentioned ; the inside, within the espaliers, to be the 

 Kitchen-ground, dividing it, if thought necessary, by rows of 

 gooseberry, currant, and raspberry plants. 



But when necessary to have the whole space of the kitchen-garden 

 employed for real use, no ground should be lost in ornamental 

 borders and walks : have a border all round the boundary-fence, 

 five or six feet wide, except the south borders, which should be 

 seven or eight feet broad, because of their great use for raising 

 early crops ; and have a walk round the garden, not more than a 

 yard to five or six feet wide ; allowing the same width for the mid- 

 dle-walks, or so as to admit of wheel-barrows passing to bring in 

 the manure, See. and may either have a four-feet wide border all 

 round each quarter, next the walks, or not, as you shall think pro- 

 per; laying the walks neatly with any gravelly materials, or with 

 coal-ashes, &c. so as to have dry walking, and wheeling with a 

 barrow in all weathers. 



General Culture of the Ground. 



With respect to the general culture of the Kitchen-garden. ...it 

 consists principally in a general annual digging ; proper manuring ; 

 sowing and planting the crops properly ; pricking out, planting, and 

 transplanting various particular crops ; keeping the ground clean 

 from weeds ; and watering the crops occasionally in summer. 



As to digging.. ..a general digging must be performed annually in 

 winter or spring, for the reception of the principal crops ; also as 

 often as any new crops are to be sown or planted at any season of 

 the year; remarking, that, the general digging for the reception of 

 the main crops of principal esculents in spring, I should advise to 

 be performed by trenching either one or two spades deep, be- 

 sides the paring at top ; though, except for some deep-rooting 



