CHAP. III.
Shews what a good Kitchen-Garden may yield us every Month in the Year, and how a Gard'ner may and ought to employ himself there in every one of those Months.
THe Experience of hot Countries sufficiently convinces us, that the Earth taken in ge∣neral, is capable at all Seasons, to produce all manner of things, without any extraor∣dinary assistance of Art, because in those parts, there is no Season in the Year, in which she is not teeming, but by a contrary experience we find, that our Climate is too cold to afford us any such fertility; and yet because there are few days, in which a Man has not oc∣casion to make up a part of his nourishment and subsistance with something of the growth of his Garden; It concerns the industrious Gard'ners so to manage it, that it may not only produce enough amply to suffice for our daily use, during the five or six Months in which the Earth acts at her Ease, by the favour of the Sun's Neighbourhood, but also furnish us at the same time, a sufficient Provision for those five or six Months in which she is suspended from her ordinary functions.
Now among the Barren and less happy Months that commonly make the greatest op∣position to our Culture, are reckoned the last fifteen days of November, all December, and January, and the first fifteen days of February; the violence of the Frosts which in that Season use to harden and cool the Earth, and the abundance of Snow with which it is then wont to be covered, putting such a perfect stop to all Vegetative Operations, that the most fertile Soil becomes at that time altogether like that which never was blessed with that accomplishment.