The TraStical Kitchen Gardiner. 



or high, whether on the fide of a hill^ 

 or on low moift ground i legumes, ef- 

 culent, and many other of the herbace- 

 ous kinds, affeding upland, dry, and 

 airy pafture 5 while the Brajjica cabbage 

 and collyflower profpers beft in marifh 

 moift land : And others there are that 

 love a fituation between both, as does 

 the afparagus, artichoke, and the like. 

 All which will be more particularly 

 confidered in one of the chapters fuc- 

 ceeding this. 

 0/ the fi. * In general a declining plane about 

 tmim. inch in ten foot fall, is the moft 

 proper for a kitchen garden, lying 

 open to the Southern expofition, and 

 divided into three feveral levels, for 

 herbs and fruits of different kinds, as 

 nature and confervation {hall beft direft, 

 with a river or rivulet running at the 

 bottom 5 and towards the illuftration of 

 which, I have adjoined the following 

 plan. 



0/ foil in Many have been the obfervations and 

 gumraU diredions concerning thofe earths and 

 foils that have been judged moft proper 



* Faelix horti pofitio eft cui leniter incllnata planities 

 minimus curfus aquae fluentis per fpatia difcreta derivat. 

 'iaUcid. de re mpc lib.i. p. 33. 



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