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garden, such as onions, carrots, turnips, leeks, par- 

 snips, &c. Perennials are such plants as continue 

 many years in the ground ; annuals are such as 

 usually die immediately after they once bear seed, 

 and that is usually, tho' not universally, the first 

 or second year. 



As for physical-plots, you may have them in that 

 ridge of the kitchen-garden next the bordures : and 

 if you incline to have no other pleasure-garden, 

 you may have flowers there, and on the bordures 

 next the walks also : another ridge or interval be- 

 twixt the walk and wall will be excellent for all 

 early, rare, and tender plants. You may rill your 

 physic-herbs in tribes and kindreds, planting every 

 tribe by themselves, and you may also place one of 

 each kind in alphabetical order. 



As for walls, bricks are best ; next to these, stone 

 and lime ; four ells is low enough, five or six if you 

 please. Make your walls of south aspect in straight 

 lines, but not in semicircles, which is by some er- 

 roneously practised ; for there the wind being pent 

 up occasions squirles, and retards the ripening of 

 the fruits there planted ; nor should there be any 

 hot-beds nearer the wall than twentyfeet,excepting 

 cucumbers in the ground for picklers. The distance 



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