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SITUATION, SOIL, 



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le mois de Mai, remplis de mauvaises herbes, qui ont bientot 

 6toiiffe le ble."* So that he had tried it after the manner of 

 those ^vhom Mr. Tull had complained of in England ; that is to 

 say, he had made the ridges, sowed the rows of w^heat, all in very 

 exact proportions as to distance and everything else ; but he had 

 not ploughed or horse-hoed the intervals ; whereas that operation 

 was the very soul of the system. 



12. Thus it is with but too many persons, who complain of hav- 

 ing failed, though, as they allege, they have pursued the instruc- 

 tions given them. They do not pursue those instructions except in 

 part ; therefore, I beg leave to caution the reader against falling 

 into this error ; a caution particularly necessary to those who leave 

 the performance to others : it is useless to see a part done, if you 

 neglect to see the other parts done : with this caution, as necessary 

 as any that I can possibly give, I conclude this introductory chapter. 



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 a little flat of 

 about a rod wide, one would have a gentle slope towards the south, 

 about thirty feet in wddth. 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 ; and 

 though it is attended with the inconvenience of w ashing, 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 w as from twelve to four- 

 teen feet high, built partly of flints, and partly of the sand-stone, 



* The intervals, or the spaces, between the ridges, were, from tl;e month of Mav, 

 full of weeds, which quickly smothered the wheat. 



