168 The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner. 



In the firft place, you are to open a 

 trench three foot wide, as is the man- 

 ner when you trench for carrots, parf- 

 nips, or other efculents, and laying the 

 fwarth or turf at bottom, lay next to it 

 a layer of dung and rich earth mix'd, 

 a foot thick, (for it will fink to lefs) 

 and after another layer or mixture of 

 the natural mold about fix inches more, 

 and then another layer of dung and earth 

 mix'd, about a foot more j and laft of all, 

 a foot thick of good natural mold, mix'd 

 with old melon earth, at leafl the places 

 where the roots are planted fhould be 

 fiird with fuch. 



The whole ground being thus levell'd, 

 the beds are to be mark'd out at about 

 four foot wide, and to contain four 

 rows, at twelve inches afunder, which 

 makes in all three foot, the outfide line 

 of each bed to be fix inches within the 

 edge or verge of the four foot bed, be- 

 tween w^hich let there be an alley of 

 two foot, to come between to weed the 

 beds 5 which done, rake the bed length- 

 ways, at the three foot diftance before- 

 mentiond, and then again crofs-ways, 

 every miark being a foot wide, tho' others 

 there are that make them not above 



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