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the south or south-east being very desirable for growing 

 early vegetables, and those with a northerly aspect for 

 such plants as require shade. Between these side borders 

 and the main borders there should be a walk three or four 

 feet wide, for the sake of convenience. 



Whdfe there is an abundance of land, it is better to en- 

 large the size of the garden in order to work it with the 

 plow, to do which is much less expensive than to cultivate 

 it with the spade, and it can be far more rapidly done ; an 

 object of great importance to our farming community, 

 whose agricultural operations overdrive them in the 

 spring-time, and so unfortunately allow them but little 

 time to devote to horticultural work. 



On no account should currant, gooseberry, raspberry or 

 other bushes, or any fruit trees, be planted in the kitchen 

 garden, for they are a continual annoyance and nuisance, 

 always in the way, always robbing the adjoining vegeta- 

 bles of their proper nutriment, shading them, and being 

 themselves continually injured by the spading and other 

 garden operations necessary to growing vegetables. Al- 

 ways provide a fruit garden for them, and grow them in 

 separate quarters, where each sort can receive its own 

 special cultivation. 



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All garden tools should be made of the best materials, 

 and be as light as possible, consistent with strength. There 

 is no economy in using a spade weighing twelve pounds, 

 when one weighing eight pounds will do the work, and be 

 equally strong. If in spading a piece of ground we turn 

 over two thousand spadesful of earth, and in doing so use 

 a wrought iron, steel-edged spade, weighing one pound 



