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should be placed less in sight." 

 Did. of Arts. 



I consider the kitchen garden as 

 of very considerable importance, 

 as pot herbs, sallads, and roots of 

 various kinds, are useful in house- 

 keeping. Having a plenty of thenn 

 at hand, a family will not be so 

 likely to run into the error, which 

 is too common in this country, of 

 eating flesh in too great a propor- 

 tion for health. Farmers, as well 

 as others, should have kitchen gar- 

 dens : And they need not grudge 

 the labour of tending them, which 

 may be done at odd intervals of 

 time, which may otherwise chance 

 to be consumed in needless loiter- 

 ing. 



It is best that a garden should 

 be on a declivity. If it be very 

 steep, it may be thrown into 

 banks, and level plats. There is 

 commonly a variety of soils on a 

 declivity of any considerable ex- 

 tent. This will give a material 

 advantage to a garden, as a variety 

 of different plants may have each 

 the soil that best suits them. 



A kitchen garden should not be 

 situated at any great distance from 

 the house, lest being too much out 

 of sight, it should be out of mind, 

 and the necessary culture of it too 

 much neglected. 



A garden should have a close 

 fence, that the winds may not drive 

 seeds of weeds into it. The fence 

 should be at least seven feet high, 

 and picketed, to prevent the en- 

 trance of thieves. The height 

 and closeness of the fence, will in- 

 crease the vegetation by increas- 

 ing the warmth of the air in the 

 garden, excepting perhaps in the 



parts which are shaded by the fen- 

 ces. The rage of high winds will 

 be so opposed as to prevent the 

 tearing and distorting of tender 

 plants ; and fowls may be the 

 more easil) kept out. 



A garden should have a border 

 of about three ft et, and next to 

 the border a walk of the same 

 width or one foot wider. The 

 walk through the middle may be 

 from six to eight feet as the owner 

 pleases. This may be crossed by 

 one, two, or three narrower ones, 

 if the shape of the ground requires 

 it ; or if it is half as long again the 

 one way as the otherj which is 

 more elegant than an equilateral 

 square. On these cross walks 

 may be espaliers for grapes. 

 Trees should not be in the outer 

 border, but on the opposite sides 

 of the outer walks ; not two many 

 of them ; perhaps one of the 

 dwarf kind in 20 or 30 feet. — 

 Standard trees in gardens give 

 too much shade. Dwarfs are 

 commonly cut into espaliers. — • 

 But this torturing of trees makes 

 them less fruitful, and shorter 

 lived. Those who prefer it may 

 make this sacrifice to elegance 

 and beauty. In fruit trees which 

 need much heat, and placed a- 

 gainst northern walls, I object not 

 to it. 



GARDENING, a kind of agri- 

 culture, usually called Horticul- 

 ture. It may be considered as 

 farming in miniature. It is con- 

 versant in preparing ground for 

 different kinds of seeds, and in 

 treating them properly during 

 their growth. The garden is the 

 fittest place to make the first ex- 



