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OF THE FORMATION 



SECT. Ill, 



To help towards refolving on the quantity of ground 

 st may be prudent to cultivate as a garden, a general 

 idea may be given in obferving, that an acre with wall- 

 irees, hot beds, pots, &c. will furnifh employment for 

 a man, who at fome bufy times will need affiftance. 

 The Jize of the garden fhould, however, be propor- 

 tioned to the houfe, as to the number of inhabitants it 

 does, or may contain. This is naturally dictated ; but 

 yet, it is better to have too much ground allotted than 

 too little, and there is nothing monftrous in a large 

 garden annexed to a final 1 houfe. 



Some families ufe few, others many vegetables, and 

 it makes a great difference whether the owner is cu- 

 rious to have a long feafon ot the fame production, or 

 is content to have a fupply only at the more common 

 times. But to give fome rule for the quantity of 

 ground to be laid out, a family of four perfons (ex- 

 clufive of fervants) may have a rood of good working 

 open ground, and fo in proportion. 



But if poffible, let the garden be rather extenfive 

 according to the family ; for then, a ufeful fprinkling 

 of fruit trees can be planted in it, which may be ex- 

 pected to do well, under the common culture of the 

 ground about them ; a good portion of it alfo'may be 

 allotted for that agreeable fruit the Jlrawherry in all its 

 varieties; and the very difagreeable circumflance of 

 being at any time fhort of vegetables^ will be avoided* 

 It fhould be confidered alio, that artichokes, aiparagus^ 

 . and along fucceflion oi peas and Leans, require a good 

 deal of ground. Hot-beds will alfo take up much 

 room, if any thing confiderahle be done in the way 

 of raifing cucumbers, melons, flowers, &c* 



The fituation of a garden fhould be dry, but rather 

 low than high, and as fheltered as can be from the 

 North and Eajl winds. Thefe points of the compa/s, 

 fhould be guarded ag inft by high a;>d good fences ; 

 by a wall of at leaft ten feet high ; lower walls do not 

 anfwer fo well for fruit-trees, thcugh one of eight may 



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