48 OF THE CULTIVATION SECT. IV, 



different nourishment: fo that after a full crop of one 

 thing, one of another kind may often be immediately 

 fown; but it fliould be contrived that a wide crop may 

 follow a clofe one, and contrariwife. 



Cloje crops, as onions, leeks, carrots, &c. are con- 

 veniently and neatly cultivated in beds of from four 

 to five feet widths, with alleys of a foot to eighteen 

 inches between them. 



The feafons proper for furnilhing the ground with 

 every particular vegetable, fhould be well attended to, 

 that .each may be obtained as early as its nature will 

 permit ; and of the feeds and plants we ufc, care muft 

 be taken to procure the beft of the kind, left after all 

 the trouble of cultivation, difapp ointment as to quality 

 fliould en fue.. 



The quantity fown and planted is (in a degree) to be 

 determined by the poition of ground that can be fpared ; 

 but it fliould be always a rule, to fow and plant more 

 than probably enough, as more may happen to be 

 wanted than expecled, and a crofs feafon or other 

 accident, may occafion a failure. As exacl rules can- 

 not be laid down, the exercife of a little judgment will 

 be neceffary, in order to proportion crops aright; for to 

 have too much of one thing, and too little of another, is 

 difagreeable, and difcreditable. Refpeft fhould be paid 

 to the natural duration of crops, fome going off foon, 

 and others being lading, and that too according to the 

 feafon they are propagated in. See, Of propagation, in 

 the next leftion. 



Seeds and plants fliould be adapted as much as pof- 

 fible to the foil and fttuation which beft fuks them ; for 

 jp the fame garden fome difference will be found, not 

 only as to fun and fhelter, but the earth; as fome will 

 be richer, fome poorer, fome deeper, fome fhallower, 

 and fome (perhaps) heavier, fome lighter, - in due atten- 

 tion to which, advantage is to be reaped. 



Let the ground really on all ©ccafions be well dug* 



Weeding 



