THE 



PRACTICAL GARDENER 



AND 



MODERN HORTICULTURIST. 



CHAP. I. 



FORMATION OF THE CULINARY 



OR 



KITCHEN-GARDEN. 



XWe production and cultivation of those vegetables, which 

 contribute in a very essential degree to the support of man, have 

 a prior claim on our consideration and attention. Every day, 

 the produce of the garden is spread on the tables of the gay, 

 the grave, the rich, and the poor. From the prince to the 

 humble cottager, a garden is an object to which a certain 

 degree of importance is attached, and each endeavours to give 

 it the highest possible cultivation, in order to supply his 

 various wants and desires. In a political point of view, the 

 culinary garden must be considered of great importance to the 

 public; for which reason, we find the grounds surrounding 

 all great cities and considerable towns appropriated to the cul- 

 ture of it. In the environs of London for a considerable 

 extent, little else occupies the ground but gardens, the produce 

 of which finds a ready sale in the different markets of the 

 metropolis. Gardens are not only important as affording the 

 most wholesome food to the inhabitants, but also on account 

 of the employment they afford to hundreds of industrious 

 people, who otherwise would become a burthen on their parish. 

 In this light, abstractedly, they must be considered as a 

 national good. Neither is the cultivation of them less under- 



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