The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner, 



fome fort of confolation and fatisfa£lion 

 in all forts of grounds. 



However tho', abfolutely fpeaking, all 

 things that may enter into a kitchen 

 garden, may grow in all forts of grounds 

 that are not altogether barren, yet it 

 has been obferved in all times, that all 

 forts of earth agree not equally with all 

 forts of plants; our able market gardi- 

 ners, in the neighbourhood of this great 

 city, juftify the truth of this by moft 

 convincing experience $ for we fee fuch 

 of them whofe gardens are in fandy 

 grounds, feldom mind to plant in them 

 any artichokes, collyflowers, beet-chards, 

 onions, cardons, cellery, beet-raves or 

 red-beet-roots, and other roots, (^c, as 

 thofe do that have them in ftronger and 

 more hearty lands j and on the contra- 

 ry, thefe laft employ not their ground 

 in forrel, purflain, lettuce, endive, and 

 other fmall plants, that are delicate, and 

 fubjed to perifh with mildew, and the 

 wet, and rot, as do thofe whofe gardens 

 are in light foils. 



From all that I have afferted, there 

 refuit two things the firft is, that an 

 able gardiner, who has a pretty dry or 

 hilly ground to cultivate, with an obli- 

 gation 



