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almost wholly destroyed the Ruta Baga that 

 stood within its reach. Grass, which matts the 

 ground all over with its roots, and does not de- 

 mand much food from any depth, does not suffer 

 much from the roots of trees ; but, every other 



?lant does. A Kitchen Garden should, there- 

 sre, have no large trees near it. In the spring 

 and fall tall trees do great harm even by their 

 shade, which robs the garden of the early and the 

 parting rays of the sun. It is therefore, on all 

 accounts, desirable to keep all such trees at a dis- 

 tance. 



15. If it be practicable, without sacrificing too 

 much in other respects, to make a garden near to 

 running water, and especially to water that may 

 be turned into the garden, the advantage ought 

 to be profited of ; but as to watering with a ?ua- 

 tering foot, it is seldom of much use, and it can- 

 not be practised upon a large scale. It is better 

 to trust to judicious tillage and to the dews and 

 rains. The moisture which these do not supply 

 cannot be furnished, to any extent, by the water- 

 ing-pot. A man will raise more moisture, with 

 a hoe or a spade, in a day, than he can pour on 

 the earth out of a watering-pot in a month. 



SOIL. 



16. The plants, which grow in a garden, pre- 

 fer, like most other plants, the best soil that is 

 to be found. The best is, loam of several feet 

 deep with a bed of lime-stone, sand- stone, or 

 sand, below. But, we must take what wejftnd or, 

 rather what we happen to have. If we have a 

 choice, we ought to take that which comes near- 

 est to perfection, and, if we possibly can, we 



