T^he 7 radical Kitchen Gardinef. 



garden, efpecially, for thofe kinds that 

 require quick and fpeedy growth, and 

 to be well fed, as does the collyflower, 

 and other kinds ; and this I fuppofe the 

 firft, tho* the humblefl: and loweft ftage, 

 wherein we form the plan of our culi- 

 nary gardens for this blackifli mold, if 

 not inclinable to be peaty or moory, is 

 to be preferred before others, for that 

 it receives, as is clfewhere intimated, 

 the leafl: detriment from exceffive rain 

 or droughts, and confifting of loofe par- 

 ticles, the fun has the more power in 

 the drawing up the moifturc that natu- 

 rally lies at the bottom of all low lands, 

 by which this lower plat or plan is 

 moiftened in all dry weather, and the 

 roots of the herbs refreflied, without 

 the frequent helps of irrigations and 

 waterings 5 by which means the produce 

 of the fruit is the larger and finer. 

 Neither is it to be forgot, that the bot- 

 tom fhould, as it is for fruit gardens, 

 be a gravel rock, or bed of chalk, but 

 the firft generally offers itfelf in fuch 

 low places 5 and it muft be obferved, 

 that the proper improvement for this 

 kind of land is dung, cole-aftics, or fea- 

 faad, the which is fo cffentiai for the ac- 

 celerating 



