4 6i 
THE ORDERING 
OF THE KITCHEN 
GARDEN. 
Chap. t. 
The fituation of a Kjtchen Garden, or Garden of Herbes, and Hihaf fort of 
manure isfittejl to belpe the decaying of the joyle thereof. 
Auinggiuen you the bed rules and inflru&ionsthdt I can for your 
Bower Garden, and all the flowers that are fit to furnifh it, I now 
proceede to your herbe garden, which is not of the lead refpedi 
belonging to any mans houfe, nor vtterly to bee negJcdled for the 
many vtilitics are to be had from it,both for the Maflers profit and 
pleafure, and the mcynies content and nourilhment : all which if 
( I Ihould here fet down, I had a large field to wander in, and matter 
" fufficicntto entreat of, but this worke pcrmitteth not that libertie : 
and I thinke there are but few but eyther know it already, or conceiue it diffidently in 
their minds. Palfing therefore no further in fuch difeourfes, I come to the matter in 
hand.which is to Ihcw you where the fitted place is for an herbe garden. As before I 
fhewedyouthatthebeautieof any worthy houfeis much the more commended for 
the pleafant fituation of the garden of flowers, or of pleafure, to be in the fight and full 
profpeft of all the chiefe and choifcd roomes of the houfe- fo contrariwife,y our herbe 
garden fliould bee on the one or other fide of the houfe, and thole bed andchoyfe 
roomes : for the many different fents that arife from the herbes, as Cabbages, Onions,- 
See. are fcarce well pleafing to perfume the lodgings of any houfe 5 and the many ouer- 
tures and breaches as it were of many of the beds thereof, which mud ncceflarily bee, 
are alfo as little pleafant to the fight. But for priuate mens houfes, who mud like their 
habitations as they fall vnto them, and cannot haue time or mcanes to alter them, they 
mudmakeavertue of neceffity, and conuert their places to their bed aduantage, by 
making their profit their chicfed pleafure, and making one place feruefor all vlcs.The 
choyce of ground for this Garden, is (as I faid before) where it is fat, fertili and good, 
there needeth the leffe labour and cod : and contrariwile, whercit is cold, wet, dry or 
barren, there mud bee the more helpes dill added to keepe it in heart. Forthis Garden 
by reafon of the much andcontinuill flirting therein, the herbes androotes drawing 
outthefubdanceof thefertiliticthcreof more aboundantly then in theformer, mud 
be continually holpen with foy le, or elfe few things of goodnefic or worth will come 
forward therein. Thcflablefoyleof horfesis bed and more proper for any colde 
grounds, for being the hotted, it will caufeany thefeedes forthis Garden to profper 
well, and be more forward then in any other groundthat is not fo holpen. The flable 
loyleof Cattell is of a colder and moifler nature, and is therefore more proper for 
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