328 THE KITCHEN GARDENER, [B. 3. 



plifhed before, or at the time the walls are 

 building, than afterwards : and we often 

 find, where that matter has not been pro- 

 perly attended to at firft, and where even 

 the expence of doing it afterwards would 

 be chearfully beftowed, the principal ob- 

 flacle is the cutting-up of the lawns, fbrub- 

 bry, walks, Sec. Thefe confiderations, 

 however, ought to give way to the more 

 folid advantages to be derived from the 

 improvement of the kitchen-garden ; the 

 more efpecially, as in the courfe of a fea- 

 fon, and at a trifling expence, they may 

 be replaced in all refpeds as they were be- 

 fore. 



In many cafes might the foil of the gar- 

 den be improved in a very considerable de- 

 gree at a fmall expence. Thus, where the 

 bottom is w$t, and the fub-foil of a canker- 

 ing nature, by judicious draining, which 

 is certainly one of the greateft improve- 

 ments in this cafe : where the foil is ftub- 

 born, by the addition of fmall gravel, fea 

 fand, wherein is a confiderable quantity of 

 fmali pebbles and fhells, coal afhes, lime- 

 gravel, 



