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FEBRUARY. 
DESIGNS FOR A KITCHEN-GARDEN. 
THE Kitchen-garden is a principal district of garden-ground 
allotted for the culture of all kinds of esculent herbs and roots for 
culinary purposes, &c. 
This may be said to be the most useful and consequential depart- 
ment of gardening; since its products plentifully supply our tables 
with the necessary support of life: for it is allowed that health de- 
pends much on the use of a proper quantity of wholesome vegeta- 
bles; so that it is of the utmost importance for every person possessed 
of a due extent of ground, to have a good Kitchen-garden for the 
supply of his family. This garden is not only useful for raising all 
sorts of esculent plants and herbage, but also all the choicer sorts 
of tree and shrub-fruits, &c. both on espaliers and standards; and 
the annual cultivation of the ground, by the manuring, digging, 
hoeing, Sec necessary in the culture of the esculent herbage, greatly 
encourages all sorts of fruit-trees, preserves them in health and 
vigour, so as always to produce large and fair fruit; for which rea- 
son, in the Kitchen-garden should always be planted the choicest 
sort of fruit-trees, particularly for espaliers and walls; likewise some 
standards, if set a considerable way asunder, so as not to shade the 
under-crops too much; and when the trees are judiciously disposed, 
there will be nearly the same room for the crops of herbaceous escu- 
lents as without them; so that this garden may be reckoned both as 
a Kitchen and fruit-garden. 
As to the situation of this garden, with respect to the other 
districts, if designed principally as a Kitchen and fruit-garden, 
distinct from the other parts, and that there is room for choice of 
situation, it should generally be placed detached entirely from the 
pleasure-ground; also as much out of view of the front of the ha- 
bitation as possible, at some reasonable distance, either behind it, or 
towards either side thereof, so as its walls or other fences may not 
obstruct any desirable prospect either of the pleasure-garden, fields, 
or the adjacent country; having regard, however, to place it, if pos- 
sible, where the situation and soil is eligible, as hereafter illustrat- 
ed; and if its situation is unavoidably such as to interfere with the 
pleasure-gardens, so as its fences may be thought disagreeable to 
view, they may be shut out from sight by intervening plantations of 
shrubs and trees. 
But as in many places they are limited to a moderate compass of 
ground, and in others, though having scope enough, require but a 
small extent of garden, you may, in either case, have the Kitchen, 
fruit, and pleasure-garden all in one; having the principal walks 
spacious, and the borders next them of considerable breadth; the 
back part of them planted with a range of espalier fruit-trees, sur- 
