8 The Tra6iical Kitchen Gardiner. 



IS a very extraordinary fituation, yet the 

 foil is poor, and on a very wretched 

 barren dry gravel, fo bad that I have 

 ofcen defpaired of bringing any of the 

 garden produce to the leaft degree of 

 perfedlion : The place where this kitchen 

 garden and potagery was to be, was an 

 old over-fhaded orchard, where the ge- 

 neral part of the foil was not above a 

 foot deep at moft ; but the long (land- 

 ing and fhade of the trees, a misfor- 

 tune pernicious to a garden *, had cauf- 

 ed all the herbage and ground under 

 the trees to be fower, and not without 

 fonie difficulty to be reduc d into tillage ; 

 the method of doing which 1 fhall fet 

 down in the next chapter. 



-RefersiotU It Is to bc obfcrvcd that I have every 

 /)rf/Ar^ -vvhere, and particularly in this chapter, 



^dua'mJ^' ^^^^ much of the conveniencies there 

 are in having a kitchen garden of diffe- 

 rent levels, on account of the different 

 vegetables that grow therein, fome af- 

 fecting a moift, fome a middling, and 

 others a very dry foil 5 as alfo becaufe 

 fome require a more lofty, fome a mid- 



* Hortus nuUas amat umbras piaster umbram Domini. 

 CHfemtiiy lib. 3, 



