* Dec. 
Thefe are the two Kinds of bad Soils moft fre-. 
——— quent with us; and the Method of improving 
* Heads; but, for the general Improvement of a 
Soil, whether it be for one Part of a Garden or an- | 
~ what we have here directed fhould precede it ; 
thrown in the common Way upon fuch Soils, it 
OB] 
CHLORIS, 
HE various Produéts intended to be rais’d 
upon a Piece of Ground, do not alter the 
“Nature of its ‘Improvement : “Vegetation is the 
‘fame, whether it concern a Cedar or a Cabbage ; 
and the fame Culture will, for all general Purpo- 
fes, fuit the fame Soil. - 
With Regard to Particulars, the Direction for |. 
| great Article. of the Proprietor’s Concern : in the | 
 fevereft Weather thefe Ingredients may be pick’d 
their Management are given under their feveral 
other, the Rules are the fame. | 
What we have jut faid of the Fruit-Tree 
Borders, may be transferr’d to the’Kitchen-Gar- 
den; and in the fame. Manner, if the Soil’ be | 
' clayey, it may be improv’d ‘by Sand ; if fandy, © 
by burnt Clay, with the propos’d Additions 5 | 
and will, from that Management, alter | its former 
Nature. 
This is a Time to enquire into the Condition 
of the Kitchen-Ground, becaufe it is now moft 
vacant of its Produéts; and fuch Ingredients 
fhould be brought on to improve it. 
~The common Practice fupplies the Ufe of all 
with Dung; but tho’ nothing raifes the Growths 
of a Kitchen-Garden fo quick, nothing is more 
improper 5 for it renders them coarfe and ill-fla- 
vourd. | 
Indeed, for thofe who are moft fond of its Ufe, 
for if 
them will lead to the Manaeentent of all the 
others. 
Dee. 
can take little Fffedt. 
to Pieikive them from the Frofts. 
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or the KITCHEN-GARDEWN. 
Its Virtue will be wath’d 
thro’ the fandy Soil, oad will not mix with the 
clayey i in their natural State; but as we have di- 
rected them to be alter’d by Additions, they be- 
come a new ‘Soil, and will receive and retain its 
| Influence. | 
dct fia, in every new Rigchen- Garden, be a 
up and broughit in; and when it is milder, they 
may be dug into the Ground before the Spring- 
Planting. | 
The Beds of Artichokes will this Week require 
the Gardener’s Care ; they muft be earth’d up, lay- 
ing a Ridge of Mould over their Sides and Tops 
The Leaves 
mutt be cut down for this Purpofe, and the Earth 
| laid carefully over them. 
Where there are any fet for F ruit, let them 
ftand, draw up the Earth clofe to them, and de- 
fend them well; this will keep them in Vigour, 
and the Artichokes will ripen at a very agreeable 
Seafon. 
The Celeri is another Article that requires Care 
in this Part of the Garden ; it muft be earth’d up 
-ina mild dry Day, very high, to preferve it from . 
the Froft, as well as blanch it: and with this, and 
the fowing a little young Salletting to fucceed the 
laft, may-conclude the Bufinefs of the prefent 
Week... 
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