THE KITCHEN GARDEN. l><>7 



KITCHEN GARDEN. 



In the choice of the site for the Kitchen Garden, 

 the situation, if possible, should be selected where it 

 may be sheltered by plantations, or other adjoining 

 scenery, from the high cutting winds, which are very 

 destructive to the early crops, as well as to the fruit 

 blossoms. 



The site that appears most suitable for a Kitchen 

 Garden, is on the declivity of an eminence, or rising 

 ground, where it slopes towards the South ; and 

 if it can be formed with about one foot of a fall 

 in thirty, and so as to have a gentle inclination to- 

 wards the East, say about one foot in every hundred 

 feet in length, the crops will have the better advan- 

 tage of the morning sun in the Spring months. The 

 annexed Plate will illustrate the general arrange- 

 ment of the Kitchen Garden here, which was exe- 

 cuted from the designs of William Atkinson, Esq., 

 of Grove End, St. John's Wood, whose extensive 

 experience in the various kinds of horticultural 

 erections has been very generally acknowledged, 

 as giving great satisfaction. 



This Garden consists of a parallelogram, which is 

 the most convenient form for cropping, and for 

 affording a greater portion of South aspect for the 

 finer wall fruits. The space enclosed within the 

 walls contains about four English acres of ground ; 

 it is surrounded by a broad slip, which, being planted 

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