PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS 



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GARDENING. 



PART FIRST. 



Of the Kitchen-garden, the Fruits therein, and of the Cul- 

 ture of Kitchen-herbs and Roots. 



THE choice of a proper and convenient fituation, is 

 the firfl: thing to be confidered in laying out a kit- 

 chen-garden. The common, and indeed mofl: eligible, 

 fituation, is, to have it near the flables and cow-houfe, 

 for the convenience of wheeling in dung, for if it is at 

 any great diflance from the garden, it proves very incon- 

 venient. All kitchen-gardens ought to be wailed in. 

 Their figures in general are either regular fquarcs, or 

 oblongs ; the laft are to be preferred, provided their 

 length be from eart to weft, for the benefit of the ripen- 

 ing influence of the fun, for the fruits upon the fouth and 

 fo'jth-ealT: walls. They fhould not onlv be walled in, but 

 plantations of firs fhould be made at the diflance of 200 

 yaids from the walls, upon the north, the eafl, and wefl 

 fides. For a fmall family, two acres of giound will do; 

 but if for a greater, it fhould conftft of fix or eight, with 

 a large refervoir for water in the centre, or fouth-end, 

 which may, if the proprietor pleafes, be fo large as to 

 contain a variety of fifh. Water for a garden is abfo- 

 lutf-ly nectfTary, and fuch only as is foft and well impreg- 

 naied with the fun's rays, which conduecr to vegetati- 

 on ; v/hereas that taken immediately from f;.^rings, acts 

 the contrary, and in many cafes totally deflroys the 

 plant-j. The garden fliould be well expcled to the fun, 



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