II. ENCLOSING, LAYING OUT. 



fence, I shall also presently speak ; but, to conclude the 

 subject of dimensions, the piece of ground between the 

 wall and the outer fence, ought to be a clear rod wide, 

 which would add forty- two rods of ground to the hun- 

 dred and four enclosed within the walls, making, in the 

 whole, of garden ground, a hundred and fifty-six square 

 rods, being fourteen square rods short of a statute acre. 

 I know that some noblemen and gentlemen find twice or 

 three times this quantity of land insufficient for supplying 

 their houses, though in each house there is but one family ; 

 but, if these noblemen and gentlemen were first to take 

 a look, at any time of the year, at a market garden in the 

 parish of Fulham, and then go immediately and take a 

 look over their own gardens ; they would clearly perceive 

 the cause of the insufficiency of their own. In the former, 

 they would see that there was not a single square yard of 

 ground tenanted by weeds, cabbage-stumps, or plants of 

 lettuce, and other things, suffered to stand and go use- 

 lessly to seed -, and, in the latter, they would find all 

 these in great abundance, and large spaces of ground left, 

 apparently as if of no use at all. The quantity of kitchen 

 vegetables which a hundred and forty-six rods of ground 

 is capable of producing in the course of a year, would 

 astonish any man not accustomed to observe and to cal- 

 culate upon the subject. Many a gardener, with a 

 smaller quantity of land, sends a hundred cart-loads of 

 produce to the market in the course of a year, exclusive 

 of plums, cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, 

 and strawberries. To speak of cabbages, for instance, 

 a square rod of ground will contain about a hundred ; 

 and when are a hundred cabbages to he eaten in almost 

 any femily $ Six square rods of winter spinage are more 



