Feb.] THE KITCHEN GARDEN. ^5 



most sunny situation for the early crops, and the other parts for 

 the main crops. 



The south borders are proper for raising the earliest plants, as 

 early peas, beans, radishes, spinage, lettuce, carrots, small salad- 

 herbs, kidney-beans, &c. ; the east and west borders for succession 

 of early crops, and the north borders, which being shady and cool, 

 serve for raising and pricking out many small plants, slips and 

 cuttings in summer; though all these borders, in every exposure, 

 may be made useful at all seasons. The borders next the espaliers 

 are proper for crops of small plants at all seasons of the year, as 

 lettuce, endive, spinage, small salad-herbs, strawberries, and seve- 

 ral others, both to stand and for transplantation, according to the 

 mode of culture of the different sorts; and by keeping all the bor- 

 ders constantly well furnished with various esculents, disposed 

 according to their different growths, they, besides their usefulness, 

 effect a delightful variety. 



In the internal parts, called the quarters, should always be raised 

 the larger principal crops, such as cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, 

 coleworts, peas, beans, kidney-beans, onions, leeks, carrots, pars- 

 neps, beets, potatoes, turnips, artichokes, celery, general crops of 

 lettuce, spinage, horse radish, &c. 



As many of the esculent plants succeed best in rows, such as 

 peas, beans, cauliflowers, and all the cabbage kinds, transplanted 

 lettuces, endive, potatoes, artichokes, Jerusalem artichokes, celery, 

 and some others, particular regard is requisite that the rows are 

 at proper distances for the plants to have full scope to grow, and 

 would advise that all the tall-";rowin<r sorts, sown in drills, such as 

 peas, beans, kidney-beans, &c. for early crops, have their rows 

 ranging north and south, if possible, that the sun may shine on 

 each side of the rows more effectually, as well as on the ground 

 between the rows; both of which are of more advantage to early 

 crops than may be generally imagined; for when the rows range 

 east and west, one row shades another, so that when the plants 

 grow up, they cannot all receive an equal benefit of the sun. 



The great art in cropping a kitchen garden, is to make the most 

 of every part of the ground where necessary, by having each quar- 

 ter well occupied with as many crops annually as possible, as 

 practised by the experienced market gardeners and others, who 

 have occasion to cultivate the whole kitchen ground to every pos- 

 sible advantage, often having two or three different crops advancing 

 in successive order together on the same compartment, especially 

 where the principal crops are in wide rows, as in cauliflowers, 

 cabbages, beans, &c. Other kinds are frequently inter-cropped, at 

 proper periods, with those of peculiar growth in the respective 

 sorts; not to impede each other nor the principal crops above inti- 

 mated. Sometimes slight crops of quick growth are sown to come 

 off soon, or by the time the others begin to advance considerably; 

 or sometimes, in the advanced state of the main crops, they are 

 inter-cropped with others of a more continuing and larger growth 

 to be coming forward; ready, as the others are going off; fully 

 occupying the same spot in a succession of crops in some advanced 



