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The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner. 



of the third The third and upper ftage * is the 

 %gecf a ^ii'ieft and moft perflatile of all, and is 

 kitchen gar- xhticc^or^y by confequcnce, the better 

 for peafe, beans, and other legumes $ 

 and if fandy, or a light loam and deep, 

 the beft for carrots, turneps, and moft 

 other efculents, which love a dry foil; 

 this kind of land, when newly broke 

 up, and frefh, is very well known to 

 produce the heaithieft race of vegetables, 

 and the fweeteft and cleaneft that is pof- 

 fible, as whofoever has been at Sandr 

 wichy Burbridge, the T>evifes, and Or 

 ther places of like account, can teftify. 

 Thefe kinds of ground are manured and 

 kept in order chiefly by the plough, and 

 when turned out, fhould be reinvigor 

 rated from old heaps and layftalls of 

 compoft of earth and dung, dug out of 

 the ftreets and highways, and mixt with 

 dung and lime, a half quantity of each, 

 for the aforefaid Reafons. 



The befl: improvement of this fort oF 

 land, when its natural vigour is extin.- 

 guifhing, is the fhovelling of ftreets and 

 ponds, and of natural mold, as much 



* C-^nle fuburbano qui ficcis cr-eT^t in 



Dulcior. . Hor, Sut, lt6,i. ^. 4. 



as 



