The T^ra5iical Kitchen Gardiner. 



as will be double to the other quanti- 

 ties, and a third part of the whole of 

 rotten dung, cole afhes, mix'd and 

 laid up together in a heap, and twice 

 or thrice turned, and well blended and 

 mix'd together, the ufing of dung alone 

 being, in my humble opinion, (and I 

 think I have the eoncurrenee of moft 

 of the eminent praditioners and gar- 

 diners,) a very great fault, both in fruit 

 and kitchen gardens 5 tho' it mufl: be 

 confefs'd that it is properer for the 

 kitchen than the fruit garden 5 but even 

 here, there is nothing fo proper for 

 fallet, and oth*er edule plants, as the 

 genial and natural mold, impregnated 

 and enrich'd with well-digefted compoft, 

 without any mixture of unconfumed 

 and loathfome dung, (linking garbadge, 

 or odious carrion. Befides, experience 

 fliews, that the rahknefs of dung is fre- 

 quently the caufe of blafts and fmut» 

 tinefs. 



But there are other places that have 

 not one of the good properties iuft now 

 mentioned. 



Of this kind was a place where I 

 have had (at the time I wrote this) the 

 honour to be employed, where tho' it 



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