THE KITCHEN GARDENER. [B. 3; 



right path. Farther, it is certainly prefer- 

 able to have an article good in quality, 

 than twice the quantity which is, perhaps, 

 neither nutritive nor wholefome. The ju- 

 dicious will proportion the weight of crop 

 to the ftrength and ability of the foil. 



And this leads to another confiderationj 

 namely, that of weeds. Of all things in 

 nature, where art hath connection, the moft 

 difgufting is that of a garden of weeds, 

 a thing inconfiflent in itfelf, and alfo with 

 common fenfe. Do we fow or plant with 

 the intention of reaping ? Do we wifh to 

 raife wholefome and well-ripened crops ? 

 Do we look for re-imburfement and com- 

 penfationfor'expence and labour? And do 

 we, at the fame time, negligently fuffer 

 weeds to impoverim the foil, and rob the 

 crop of the nourifhment neceflary to fuftain 

 and bring it to perfection, and confequent- 



ly produce the defired return? Let us 



beftow the attention this fubjeft would 

 feem to deferve, and we mall conclude, fi- 

 nally, that fuccefsful cultivation and pro- 

 dudion of vegetable food, in a great mea- 

 fure, depends on the following defiderata : 



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