The TraEiical Kitchen Gardiner. 



ways, contrary to what has been faid of 

 dry barren foils, to help to drain out 

 of his grounds the water that is fo hurt- 

 ful to his plants; and for that reafon, 

 his beds of afparagus efpecially, as like- 

 wife his ftrawberry and cellery beds, ire. 

 no more than thofe of his fallets, muft 

 not be hollow, as thofe mufl: be, that 

 are made ki jirier grounds, as before. 



From all thefe general hints, may be 

 deduced, in a great meafure, the me- 

 thods by which you may make any 

 kitchen garden ufeful and proper for 

 the particular purpofcs you would ap- 

 propriate to every particular divifion j 

 which I fhall fet down in their refpedive 

 order, as I have them from experience, 

 and not fpeculation. 



The firft method, which is diredly 

 what I have made ufe of m a perfon 

 of quality's garden in the Weft country, 

 I cut down all the old trees that grew 

 thereon, and plough'd up the turf and 

 laid it in heaps, in order to burn 5 in the 

 doing which, our Weft country labour- 

 ers are very expert, becaufe they are 

 % always pradifing it on the Downs ; 

 this done, and the turf being burnt and 

 laid in heaps, the following compofition 



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