SOIL, CHAP. 



CHAPTER II. 



On the Situation, Soil, Form and Extent, Enclosing, and 

 Laying-out, of Kitchen- Gardens. 



SITUATION. 



13. IF one could have what one wished, in point of 

 situation, from the wall on the north side of the garden, 

 after ft little flat of about a rod wide, one would have a 

 gentle slope towards the south, about thirty feet in width. 

 The remainder of the ground, to the wall on the south 

 side of the garden, one would have on a true level. The 

 gentle slope contributes to early production j and though 

 it is attended with the inconvenience of washing, from 

 heavy rains, that inconvenience is much more than made 

 up for by the advantage attending the circumstance of 

 earliness. I recollect the ancient kitchen-garden, which 

 had been that of the monks, at Waverley Abbey. It lay 

 full to the south, of course ; it had a high hill to the 

 back of it, and that hill covered with pretty lofty trees. 

 The wall, on this north side of the garden, was from 

 twelve to fourteen feet high, built partly of flints, and 

 partly of the sand stone, which is found in abundance in 

 the neighbourhood, and it was about three feet through, 

 even at the top. The ground of which the garden con- 

 sisted had been the sloping foot of a hill, taking in a 

 part of the meadow that came after the hill, and lay 

 between it and the river Wey. A flat of about twenty 



