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Table of contents
CHAPTER I
On the Situation, Soil, Fencing, and Laying out of Gardens
SITUATION
SOIL
FENCING
LAYING OUT
CHAPTER II
On the Making and Managing of Hot Beds and Green houses
HOT-BEDS
GREEN HOUSES
CHAPTER III
On Propagation and Cultivation in general.
PROPAGATION
TRUE SEED
SOUNDNESS OF SEED
SAVING AND PRESERVING SEED
SOWING
TRANSPLANTING CULTIVATION
CHAPTER IV
VEGETABLES AND HERBS
Description
Those who have gardens already formed and planted, have, of course, not the situation to choose. But, I am to suppose, that new gardens will, in a country like this, be continually to be formed; and, therefore, it is an essential part of my duty to point out what situations are best, as well with respect to the aspect as to the other circumstances.
The ground should be as nearly on a level as possible; because, if the slope be considerable, the heavy rains do great injury, by washing away the soil.
However, it is not always in our power to choose a level spot; but, if there be a slope in the ground, it ought, if possible, to be towards the South. For, though such a direction adds to the heat in summer, this is more than counterbalanced by the earliness which it causes in the spring.
By all means avoid an inclination towards the North, or West, and towards any of the points between North and West. After all, it may not be in our power to have a level spot, nor even a spot nearly level; and then we must do our best with what we have.
I am speaking here solely of a Kitchen garden. Of ornamental Gardening I shall speak a little in the Chapter on Flowers. From a Kitchen garden all large trees ought to be kept at a distance of thirty or forty yards.
For, the shade of them is injurious, and their roots a great deal more injurious, to every plant growing within the influence of those roots. It is a common but very erroneous notion, in England, that the trees, which grow in the hedges that divide the fields, do injury by their shade only.
CHAPTER I
On the Situation, Soil, Fencing, and Laying out of Gardens
SITUATION
SOIL
FENCING
LAYING OUT
CHAPTER II
On the Making and Managing of Hot Beds and Green houses
HOT-BEDS
GREEN HOUSES
CHAPTER III
On Propagation and Cultivation in general.
PROPAGATION
TRUE SEED
SOUNDNESS OF SEED
SAVING AND PRESERVING SEED
SOWING
TRANSPLANTING CULTIVATION
CHAPTER IV
VEGETABLES AND HERBS
Description
Those who have gardens already formed and planted, have, of course, not the situation to choose. But, I am to suppose, that new gardens will, in a country like this, be continually to be formed; and, therefore, it is an essential part of my duty to point out what situations are best, as well with respect to the aspect as to the other circumstances.
The ground should be as nearly on a level as possible; because, if the slope be considerable, the heavy rains do great injury, by washing away the soil.
However, it is not always in our power to choose a level spot; but, if there be a slope in the ground, it ought, if possible, to be towards the South. For, though such a direction adds to the heat in summer, this is more than counterbalanced by the earliness which it causes in the spring.
By all means avoid an inclination towards the North, or West, and towards any of the points between North and West. After all, it may not be in our power to have a level spot, nor even a spot nearly level; and then we must do our best with what we have.
I am speaking here solely of a Kitchen garden. Of ornamental Gardening I shall speak a little in the Chapter on Flowers. From a Kitchen garden all large trees ought to be kept at a distance of thirty or forty yards.
For, the shade of them is injurious, and their roots a great deal more injurious, to every plant growing within the influence of those roots. It is a common but very erroneous notion, in England, that the trees, which grow in the hedges that divide the fields, do injury by their shade only.
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