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that for example, in the winter months 

 we hardly fee any of its Produdions, the 

 moft part of them being carried out, and 

 laid up in ftore-houfes, and conferva- 

 tories 5 and even, amongft the plants 

 that are to be feen in it at other times, 

 that have not attain d to their perfedion, 

 which the unlearned owner might fup- 

 pofe ought to make a figure in his garden 5 

 tho' perhaps they require two or three, 

 and fometimes five or fix months time to 

 toive to itj then perhaps the honeft 

 gardiner is unknowingly blam'd. 



Thus it is in the beginning of the fpring 

 with all legumes or edible plants, and 

 green things,and thus too it is in the Sum- 

 meVy with the principal produce of other 

 Seafons : upon which confideration, it 

 can't be thought impertinent, nor unufe- 

 ful to fliew yet a little more particular- 

 ly, wherein confifts the excellency and 

 acconipliihments of a kitchen garden,(and 

 its gardiner) judging firft of the labour and 

 works we ought to find doing in it 5 and 

 then fecondly, what we ought to find in 

 it every time we go there. 



As for the works of care that ought to 2'/"^^'"^ 

 be done in this, as well as the preceding/// of a 

 months j we fhould be fatisfied if we find . 



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