SITUATION, SOIL, CHAP. 



than sufficient to afford a constant supply for even the 

 largest of families. Peas and beans require room ; but 

 they are not long upon the ground, and other crops are 

 coming on between them. In short, long experience and 

 observation has convinced me that a large garden is of 

 very little use j and that, while it requires a great deal 

 more labour than a small one to keep it in any thing like 

 good order, it is never made to produce so much. The 

 manure has to be scattered over a larger space ; the idle 

 ground is by no means idle in producing mischief : the 

 weeds that are suffered to remain on it produce and 

 nourish and breed up innumerable families of snails and 

 slugs, wood-lice, grubs, and all those things which de- 

 stroy crops. The weeds, when dug in, generate these 

 mischievous vermin, and furnish them with food at the 

 same time. The grass that is turned in breeds the wire- 

 worm -, so that, the idle ground not only does no good, 

 bnt produces a great deal of mischief, while the extent of 

 the garden is really a valid pretence for the employment 

 of a great number of hands. 



ENCLOSING. 



30. UNDER this head we are first to speak of the walls, 

 which ought to be twelve feet high, two feet thick to the 

 surface of the ground, and nine inches from the ground 

 to the top, with a jam coining out six inches from the 

 wall on the outside j and these jams ought not to be 

 more than eight or ten feet apart. This would give a 

 wall quite smooth in the inside of the garden -, and, on 



