84 THE CULTURE OF 



Directions for forming the Beds. 



and west. Having securely placed the line 

 on eilher side, evenly chop the ground two 

 inches deep on the surface within, on both 

 sides the bed; when dig or throw out the 

 common or natural soil one spit deep 

 throughout, wheeling away the earth by put- 

 ting the same into barrows, to be taken away 

 to the most convenient situation; then with 

 a broad shovel, clear away by throwing out 

 all crumbs or loose mould at the bottom of 

 the bed, after which, dig out a further half 

 spit of the lower soil evenly throughout 

 clearing away the crumbs as before, thus 

 making the newly-formed bed about half a 

 yard deep. On the common earth being 

 thus removed with barrows, wheel therein a 

 sufficiency of the same soil or compost pre- 

 pared to fill the bed, leaving it two or three 

 inches higher than the surface of the ground, 

 that it remain even therewith, when the 

 compost has fallen by sinking to a level 

 with the common earth. In two or three 



