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Enquire within upon everything
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Robert Kemp Philp
196
This
is
one
of
the
most
important
parts
of
general
domestic
economy,
whenever
the
situation
of
a
house
and
the
size
of
the
garden
will
permit
the
members
of
a
family
to
avail
themselves
of
the
advantages
it
offers.
It
is,
indeed,
much
to
be
regretted
that
small
plots
of
ground,
in
the
immediate
vicinity
of
the
metropolis
more
especially,
are
too
often
converted
into
flower
gardens
and
shrubberies,
or
used
as
mere
play-grounds
for
children,
when
they
might
more
usefully
be
employed
in
raising
vegetables
for
the
family.
With
a
little
care
and
attention,
a
kitchen
garden,
though
small,
might
be
rendered
not
only
useful,
but,
in
fact,
as
ornamental
as
a
modern
grass
lawn;
and
the
same
expense
incurred
to
make
the
ground
a
laboratory
of
sweets,
might
suffice
to
render
it
agreeable
to
the
palate
as
well
as
to
the
olfactory
nerves,
and
that
even
without
offending
the
most
delicate
optics.
It
is
only
in
accordance
with
our
plan
to
give
the
hint
and
to
put
before
the
reader
such
novel
points
as
may
facilitate
the
proposed
arrangement.
It
is
one
objection
to
the
formation
of
a
kitchen
garden
in
front
of
the
dwelling,
or
in
sight
of
the
drawing-room
and
parlour,
that
its
very
nature
makes
it
rather
an
eyesore
than
otherwise
at
all
seasons.
This,
however,
may
be
readily
got
over
by
a
little
attention
to
neatness
and
good
order,
for
the
vegetables
themselves,
if
properly
attended
to,
may
be
made
really
ornamental;
but
then,
in
cutting
the
plants
for
use,
the
business
must
be
done
neatly--all
useless
leaves
cleared
from
the
ground,
the
roots
no
longer
wanted
taken
up,
and
the
ravages
of
insects
guarded
against
by
sedulous
extirpation.
It
will
also
be
found
a
great
improvement,
where
space
will
admit
of
it,
to
surround
the
larger
plots
of
ground,
in
which
the
vegetables
are
grown,
with
flower
borders
stocked
with
herbaceous
plants
and
others,
such
as
annuals
and
bulbs
in
due
order
of
succession,
or
with
neat
espaliers,
with
fruit
trees,
or
even
gooseberry
and
currant
bushes,
trained
along
them,
instead
of
being
suffered
to
grow
in
a
state
of
ragged
wildness,
as
is
too
often
the
case.
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