114 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. [Feb. 
Kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, all in one, or at least often all 
within the same general inclosure; in which case, if any distinct 
part of the ground is required for ornament, a portion of it next the 
house may he laid out in a lawn or grass-plat, bounded with a shrub- 
bery; beyond which have the Kitchen-ground, separating it also 
from the other with shrubbery compartments: the Kitchen-garden 
may also be laid out with ornamental walks and borders, having a 
broad border all round; and next this, a v alk from five or six to eight 
feet wide, carried all round the garden, in proportion to its size; 
and, if the ground is of some considerable width, may have one of 
similar dimensions extended directly through the middle; and next 
the walks, have a border of four or five, to six or seven feet wide, 
carried round the quarters or principal divisions; which border, if 
raised a little sloping from the front to the back part, will appear 
better than if quite flat; planting a range of espalier fruit-trees 
along towards the back edge of the border, so as immediately to 
surround the quarters, allotting the outsides of the borders for small 
esculents, or flowers, and small flowering shrubs, having the edges 
planted with box, &c. or some with strawberries and other edg- 
ing-plants, and the walks neafly laid with gravel, or other ma- 
terials before-mentioned; the inside, within the espaliers, to be the 
Kitchen-ground, dividing it, if thought necessary, by rows of 
gooseberry, currant, and raspberry plants. 
But when necessary to have the whole space of the Kitchen-gar- 
den employed for real use, no ground should be lost in ornamental 
borders and walks: have a border all round the boundary-fence, 
five or six feet wide, except the south borders, which should be 
seven or eight feet broad, because of their great use for raising 
early crops; and have a walk round the garden, not more than a 
yard to five or six feet wide; allowing the same width for the mid- 
dle-walks, or so as to admit of wheel barrows passing to bring in 
the manure, &c. and may either have a four-feet wide border all 
round each quarter, next the walks, or not, as you shall think pro- 
per; laying the walks neatly with any gravelly materials, or with 
coal-ashes, &c. so as to have dry walking, and wheeling with a 
barrow in all weathers. 
General Culture of the Ground. 
With respect to the general culture of the Kitchen-garden — it 
consists principally in a general annual digging; proper manuring; 
sowing and planting the crops properly; pricking out, planting, and 
transplanting various particular crops; keeping the ground clean 
from weeds; and watering the crops occasionally in summer. 
As to digging — a general digging must be performed annually in 
winter or spring, for the reception of the principal crops; also as 
often as any new crops are to be sown or planted at any season of 
the year; remarking, that, the general digging for the reception of 
the main crops of principal esculents in spring, I should advise to 
be performed by trenching either one or two spades deep, be- 
sides the paring at top; though, except for some deep-rooting 
