7he Tragical Kitchen Gardiner. 



Por there is a general culture of kitchen 

 gardens, and there is a particular culture 

 peculiar to each plant. As to the ge- 

 neral culture, it is well enough known, 

 that the moft neceffary and important 

 points of it confifts, firft, in well amend- 

 ing and dunging the foil with dung and 

 earth well rotted and mixd together, 

 whether it be naturally good or not; 

 becaufe kitchen plants exhauft it much. 

 Secondly, in keeping it always loofc 

 and ftirred, either by digging up whole 

 beds, to fow or tranfplant in them, (ire. 

 or fuch other places where the fpade 

 xnay be employed j as for example, a- 

 mong artichokes, cardons, <^c. or by 

 pecking and grubbing up, where the 

 clofenefs of the plants to one another 

 will permit us to ufc only grubbing in- 

 ftruments; and alfo among foawberries, 

 lettuces, endive, peas, beans, cellery, 

 Thirdly, in watering plentifully all forts 

 of plants in very hot weather, and efpe- 

 cklly in fandy grounds, for thofe that 

 are ftrong and rank require not fo much 

 water as thofe that are jejune and bar- 

 ren ^ always obferving, that in both 

 forts of ground watering is not fo ^xz- 

 ^effaryjfof afparagus, nor for borders or 



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