Sect. fv. 



OF A GARDEN. 



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grow too rampant and rank flavoured. Carrots it 

 cankers, and it difagrees with many things; it is apt 

 alfo to make the ground parch, and burn the crops 

 fown upon it in a hot fummer. On thefe accounts 

 fome perfons have been induced to drefs their gardens 

 only with rich frefh earth; which, if they do not over- 

 crop, will do very well, being accompanied with good 

 tillage; which alone is of much ule and is effential to 

 due cultivation. Vegetables are always fweeter, the 

 lefs dungisufed, and little need be ufed, when the 

 natural foil is good and deep; for the earth may be* fa 

 dug, that what is at the top one year may be at the 

 bottom the next : which is a manoeuvre evidently advan- 

 tageous, as a good part of the ftrength of the top foil 

 wafhes downwards: The method juft recommended, 

 of letting dung lie on the furface for a time, is good 

 alfo, as it abates the ranknefs of it. 



If the ground is in proper heart, every fpot may be 

 contrived to be conjlantly and fuceefs fully cropped. 

 The common gardeners about London, and other great 

 towns, who give high rents for their land, contrive 

 (manuring well) a fuccejfion of crops, one under ano- 

 ther very dcxterouily; and this fort of conduct Ihould 

 be imitated by private perfons. Thus a little fpot, in 

 fkilful and induftrious hands, (hall be tnuch more 

 productive than a much greater under contrary ma- 

 nagement: But when hard worked, the foil will not do 

 without a good deal of dung. 



A caution muft be obferved, for if plants grow 

 crowding thick, it defeats the end in view; and. fruit 

 borders muft not be much cropped, furnifhing them 

 chiefly with fmall plants, of fhort duration, and fu- 

 perficial growth, left the roots of the trees be too much 

 robbed and (haded. 



Have an eye on vacant ground, either forimmediate 

 ufe, or to prepare it for future. 



In the occupation of ground, the change ? of crops 

 will be proper, as each fort of plant draws a Jomewhai 



different 



