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most sunny situation for the early crops, and the other parts for 
the main crops. 
The south borders are proper for raising the earliest plants, as 
early peas, beans, radishes, spinage, lettuce, carrots, small salad- 
herbs, kidney-beans, Sac, the east and west borders for succession 
of early crops, and the north borders, which being shady and cool, 
serve for raising and pricking out many small plants, slips and 
cuttings in summer; though all these borders, in every exposure, 
may be made useful at all seasons. The borders next the espaliers 
are proper for crops of small plants at all seasons of the year, as 
lettuce, endive, spinage, small salad-herbs, strawberries, and seve- 
ral others, both to stand and for transplantation, according to the 
mode of culture of the different sorts; and by keeping all the bor- 
ders constantly well furnished with various esculents, disposed 
according to their different growths, they, besides their usefulness, 
etl'ect a delightful variety. 
In the internal parts, called the quarters, should always be raised 
the larger principal crops, such as cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, 
coleworts, peas, beans, kidney-beans, onions, leeks, carrots, pars- 
neps, beets, potatoes, turnips, artichokes, celery, general crops of 
lettuce, spinage, horse radish, &c. 
As many of the esculent plants succeed best in rows, such as 
peas, beans, cauliflowers, and all the cabbage kinds, transplanted 
lettuces, endive, potatoes, artichokes, Jerusalem artichokes, celery, 
and some others, particular regard is requisite that the rows are 
at proper distances for the plants to have full scope to grow, and 
would advise that all the tall-growing sorts, sown in drills, such as 
peas, beans, kidney-beans, &c. for early crops, have their rows 
ranging north and south, if possible, that the sun may shine on 
each side of the rows more effectually, as well as on the ground 
between the rows; both of which are of more advantage to early 
crops than may be generally imagined; for when the rows range 
east and west, one row shades another, so that when the plants 
grow up, they cannot all receive an equal benefit of the sun. 
The great art in cropping a kitchen garden, is to make the most 
of every part of the ground where necessary, by having each quar- 
ter well occupied with as many crops annually as possible, as 
practised by the experienced market gardeners and others, who 
have occasion to cultivate the whole kitchen ground to every pos- 
sible advantage, often having two or three different crops advancing 
in successive order together on the same compartment, especially 
where the principal crops are in wide rows, as in cauliflowers, 
cabbages, beans, &c. Other kinds are frequently inter-cropped, at 
proper periods, with those of peculiar growth in the respective 
sorts; not to impede each other nor the principal crops above inti- 
mated. Sometimes slight crops of quick growth are sown to come 
off soon, or by the time the others begin to advance considerably; 
or sometimes, in the advanced state of the main crops, they are 
inter-cropped with others of a more continuing and larger growth 
to be coming forward;^ ready, as the others are going off; fully 
occupying the same spot in a succession of crops in some advanced 
