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OF THE FORMATION SECT. III. 



under cultivation fo fituated, is defirable ; efpecially 

 for late fucceffion crops. 



The foil that fuits general cultivation beft, is a loam ; 

 rather the red than the black'; but there are good foils 

 of various colours, and this muft be as it happens : The 

 worft foil is a cold heavy clay, and the next a light 

 land ; a moderate clay, however, is better than a verv 

 light foil, though not fo pleafant to work. If the foil 

 is not good ; i. e. too poor, too ftrong, or too light, 

 it is to be carefully improved without delay. Let it 

 fir ft, at leaft, be thoroughly broke, and cleaned of all 

 rubbifh, to a regular level depth at bottom as well as 

 top, fo as to give full eighteen inches of working 

 mould, if the good foil will admit of it ; none that is 

 bad fliould be thrown up for ufe, but rather moved 

 away. This rule of bottom levelling is particularly 

 neceffary when there is clay below, as it will fecretly 

 hold up wet, which fhould not ftand in any part of the 

 garden. When a piece of ground is cleared of roots, 

 weeds, Hones, &c. it would be of advantage, to have 

 the w r hole thrown into two feet wide trenches, and lay 

 thus as long as conveniently may be. "The ground 

 cannot be too well prepared; for when this bufmefs is 

 not performed to the bottom at firft, it is often neg- 

 lected, and is not conveniently done afterwards ; and 

 fo it happens, that barely a fpade's depth (or lefs) is 

 too often thought fufficient to go on with. There is 

 this great advantage of a deep itaple, U it in the cul- 

 tivation of it, the bottom may be brought to the top 

 every other year, by double trenching, and being thus 

 renewed, lefs dung wlU do, and fweeter vegetables be 

 grow r n : Tap-rooted things as cirrots and par/hips re- 

 quire a good depth of foiL 



The afpecl of the wall defigned for the beft fruits, 

 may be full South, or rather inclining to the Eaji> by 

 . which it will catch the fun's rays at its rife, the cold 

 night dews be earlier and more gently diffipated, and 

 the fcorching rays of the afternoon fummer's fun are 



fooner 



