The TraEtical Kitchen Gardiner. 5 



celerating fruits and herbs ; as is vifiblc 

 to thofe that confidcr what great pro- 

 dudions it makes in the neat-houfe 

 and marfh gardens 2iho\xX. Lambeth ^ Ro- 

 therhithy &c. 



For the fecond ftage or level of the The fecomi 

 kitchen garden, a loam is the moft pro-^^^^^ 

 per, if it can be had 5 for this fort of^^f^^^^^^t 

 land, tho' it may not impart fo wmohden, 

 juice to the nourifhment of herbs, as 

 the lower land does, and the herbs be 

 not fo large, yet the produce of it is 

 fweeter, and much more agreeable to 

 the palate 5 every days experience teach- 

 ing us how much better garden fluff is 

 from middling land, and fuch as is in 

 the country fome diftance hom Lon- 

 dotty or any other town where great 

 plenty of dung is, than it is there, and 

 that for afparagus and many other things 

 it is infinitely to be preferred before it, 

 becaufe it is there that not only, plants 

 but men are moft healthy 5 tho' the lower 

 ground is not to be omitted on account 

 of the abundance it produces for large 

 families, and thofe whom nothing but 

 great quantities can fuffice, this fhould 

 be trenched two foot deep, and the tops 

 often' changed for the bottom, *vice 

 verfa. B 3 The 



