Tthe Tra£tical Kitchen Gardiner. 



afunder 5 according to the goodnefs or 

 badnefs of the foil they grow in. 



Melons, cucumbers, and all forts of 

 fruit, fliould be three foot diftance one 

 hole from another. 



The rows of artichokes lliould be 

 three foot afunder every way ; ahd afpa- 

 ragus at leaft fix inches, four rows in a 

 bed, fix, eight, or ten inches apart, more 

 or lefs, as your ground is like to pro- 

 duce. All which will appear in the fol- 

 lowing feries of things 5 to which I re- 

 fer niy reader, after I have treated of 

 another convenience that ought to be 

 confiderd of in a kitchen garden 5 I 

 mean water. 



S E C T. 1. C H A P. 



Of watery its ufes and conveniencies in 

 a garden. 



IT will, I humbly conceive, be readi- 

 dily granted, that water is the very 

 life and fpirit of a garden, and without 

 which all its productions muft be im- 

 mature and imperfed $ but which afting 

 in conjundion with the fun, that is the 

 nurfe by which nutriment is convey'd 



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