BOOK THIRD. 



THE 



KITCHEN GARDENER. 



INTRODUCTION. 



NECESSITY, which is juftly faid to be 

 the mother of invention, is the firft 

 and grand ftimulus to induftry. Hence 

 the caufe, why the northern nations are 

 farther advanced in the arts of gardening 

 and agriculture than the fouthern, moft 

 probably is, that the foil and climate are 

 generally lefs favourable, and confequently 

 lefs productive of the neceflaries and com- 

 forts of life. 



As commerce extended, and mankind 

 began to have more intimate intercourfe 

 with one another, not only their real but 

 imaginary wants were mutually difcover- 



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