PART V. 



CULINARY GARDENING. 



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by its contrast to the general appearance of the country, as the 

 ideas that we have of them and the fragments which still exist 

 are gratifying to us from their antiquity and rarity. 



The cultivation and yearly management of a garden includes 

 a great variety of matter highly interesting and amusing to 

 those who take delight in a country life. It has occupied the 

 leisure hours and the pen of a Bacon, an Evelyn, a Temple, 

 and a Boyle, and therefore is not unworthy the attention of 

 their countrymen. There still remains much room for experi- 

 ment and observation, and much need of shewing the applica- 

 tion of those facts already known. It is astonishing to observe 

 what trifling evils are reckoned insurmountable, or are at- 

 tempted to be removed by unsuitable or totally inadequate 

 means. I have often seen, and daily see, great labour and 

 expence bestowed to render ground or trees fruitful, which, if 

 the simplest facts were adverted to, might be done much more 

 completely with scarcely any trouble. 



