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A49578	The compleat gard'ner, or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry, in six books : to which is added, his treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions / by the famous Monsr De La Quintinye ... ; made English by John Evelyn ... ; illustrated with copper plates.; Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers. English	La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1693 (1693)	Wing L431; ESTC R212118	799,915	521

The Fig-tree shall take the two first Toises or Fathoms The space between the third and fourth shall be for a first Admirable That from the fourth to the fifth for a first Violes Hasting peach That from the fifth to the sixth for a first Minion That from the sixth to the seventh for a first Chevreuse That from the seventh to the eighth shall remain void the better to facilitate the distances between the others which must be about eight Foot That from the eighth to the ninth shall be for a first Nivette That from the ninth to the tenth for a first Violet Perdrigon Plum That from the tenth to the eleventh shall remain void And That from to the eleventh to the twelfth for a second Admirable Peach The Minion Peach is certainly to the Eye the most beautiful Peach that can be seen It is very large very red sattin-skin'd and round It ripens the first of those of its Season and has a sine and very melting Pulp and a very small Stone its taste indeed is not always the richest nor briskest that is and sometimes it is a little faint and flat but that shall not hinder it from being the third in order here The Fair Chevreuse or Goat-Peach describes to us in its beautiful name a good part of its excellency it ripens next after the Minion and a little before the Violet-peach as the Admirable succeeds the Violet and comes in a little before the Nivette So that by the means of these five Peach-trees we may be furnish'd for about six Weeks together with an uninterrupted successive supply of the goodliest and best Peaches of all our Gardens The Chevreuse has some very considerable advantages for first it is hardly inferiour to any in largeness in beauty of colour in godly shape which is a little longish and in abundance of Sugred and well relish'd juice and over and above all that it further excells in the great increase it yields so that with a great deal of Justice I place it here for the fourth It has no other fault than that sometimes its pulp grows Doughy but it never contracts that fault but when it is let to ripen too much upon the Tree or when it grows in a cold and moist Soil or when it meets with a Summer that is neither hot enough nor dry enough It most particularly requires to be placed towards the East or South and in Grounds that are not over moist it do's well enough in a Western Exposition It is a very good sort of Peach and the commonest with those that plant them only to sell The Nivette otherwise called the Velvet-peach is likewise in my opinion a very fair and large Peach it has so fine a colour both within and without that it is most agreeable to look upon It has all the internal good qualities both of Pulp and Juice and of taste and of the smallness of Stone and loads its Trees with great abundance It is not quite so round as the Minions and Admirables but yet comes near enough that Figure when it grows upon a sound Branch otherwise it is a little horned and inclining to a longish shape It ripens about the twentieth of September just when the Admirables begin to go off and therefore with so many good qualities as it produces to maintain its claim who dare dispute it admittance among the Wall-trees in a good Exposition where there is room for five Peach trees If our midling Exposition cannot contain above four Peach-trees then I would fill it up with one Admirable and one Chevreuse or Goat-peach one Common Apricock-tree and one Purple otherwise called a Vinous-Peach This last is one of the Peach-trees that bears in greatest abundance and in my Judgment in little Gardens we should chiefly aim at abundance for which reason I preferr it before the Bourdin though that in reality be the better tasted of the two and thrives as well as that in a Westerly Exposition but yields not so much Fruit. I do not place any Maudlin-peaches in this Exposition neither nor any Minions Dandilli's Bellegardes c. because they thrive not there and are all apt there to have a Pulp too much like Dough. This Purple-peach denotes its colour by one of its names and the quality of its tast by the other and in effect it is of a brown dark red colour that penetrates pretty much into its Pulp It is very round and indifferent large its Pulp is pretty fine and its taste rich and exquisite In a word it will very well maintain its place in this little Garden The four Trees of the Northern Exposition shall be Pear-trees which shall be content with the distance of seven foot and a half from each other and they shall be one Orange green Pear two Butter-pears and one Verte longue or Long green pear all Pears that bear speedily easily and in great abundance Thus in a very little Garden whose Walls contain but about twenty two or twenty four Toises or Fathoms in compass we shall yet have sixteen of the choicest Fruit-trees namely one white Fig-tree one Violet-Perdrigon-plum-tree one Common Apricock-tree nine Peach-trees and four Pear-trees The Peach trees shall be three Admirables one Violet-Hasting one Minion two Chevreuses or Goat-peaches one Nivette and one Purple-peach and the four Pear-trees shall be two Butter-pears one Verte longue or Long green pear and one Orange-green pear After having thus furnished eleven or twelve Toises of good Exposition six or seven Toises or Fathoms of midling and five or six Toises or ten or twelve yards of bad which make in all four and twenty Toises or Fathoms in a Garden that contains no more in its four Walls I think for the better prosecuting the execution of my design it will be very pertinent for me to continue my directions for the proportion of thirty Toises or Fathoms of Good Exposition which make about fifteen Toises or Fathoms for the Eastern and as many for the Southern Exposition and afterwards to employ the remaining thirty Toises or Fathoms in the two other Expositions allotting the one half to the Midling one and the other half to the bad one after which I will fill up more and more of them augmenting still thirty Toises or Fathoms each time till I come to six hundred Toises or Fathoms of Good Exposition Methinks that in this Scheme or Project all the World may without trouble or Confusion find what they shall need for the stocking of their Wall-Plantations and in sine that the Directions which I shall give there may afford sufficient light to those who have a greater extent of Walling to stock how to fill it up For I dare affirm that unless it be for the Garden of some Great King that any private Subject will find he has a terrible quantity of Wall trees if he has 1200 Toises or Fathoms of them in all viz.

But when People have no Inclination to make such Elevations they must at least resolve to have recourse to frequent Tillages to avoid the Inconveniencies that attend Soils that easily Chop in the time of great long heats it being a very good and infallible Remedy SECTION VII Seventh Mark of good Earth We have now seen the Inconveniencies attending a Soil that is too ponderous or too fat and too strong and have found a Remedy for it on the other hand those that are too light and consequently dry are accompany'd with so many difficulties that they are capable wholly to disgust the Curious First By the difficulty of a necessary Remedy Secondly By the necessity of great and frequent Waterings which are very chargeable and without which the Earth grows or remains Barren Thirdly By the small Progress of Fruits and Legumes there during the Summer without extraordinary helps Lastly by the small number of Vegetables that can agree with it in our Gardens in which not withstanding it is necessary to have them of all kinds to be fully satisfied Let us now consider what relates to those Soils that are too dry and light and let us examin whether it be possible to correct those defects It happens often that Earth is dry and light because Nature at first formed it in that Temperature such is that of dry Turf in certain Fens such is the Sandy Soil of the Plain of Grenelle it is pretty difficult tho not impossible to render them more Ponderous and Fat which is only to be done by mixing abundance of other strong Earth among it or by making of a way for a considerable discharge of Water towards the Bottom which might spread all over it which is not very practicable sometimes this drought and lightness proceed from its lying upon a clear Sand especially when it lyes too shallow and consequently has not a Bed sufficiently solid and close to stop the Waters that fall upon it either by Rain Snow or other ways those Waters easily penetrating the Body of those Soils descend to that Sand which being as it were a kind of Sive lets them pass and go down lower as to the place of their Center whither their weight inclines them and so no Moisture or Coolness is preserved on the Bottom of that Earth from thence to be Communicated to the superior parts and consequently that Soil still relapses into its Natural Driness and Barrenness since it cannot produce any thing unless it be at once accompanied with some Moisture and Temperate Heat Those that are at liberty to choose their Ground will hardly be so ill advised as to pitch upon one that is so defective but when they are indispensably obliged to it three things must of necessity be done The First is to remove as much of that Clear Sand as will be necessary to form that depth of three Foot filling it up afterwards with as good Mould as can be conveniently got The Second is to keep all those Places that are to be Cultivated a little lower than the Walks to the End that the Waters which falls into those Walks may altogether incline and run into that Ground The Third and Last is to throw into those Cultivated Plats in the Winter all the Snow that lies in the Walks and other Parts from which they may be easily brought which will make a Provision of Moisture in the Bottom of that Ground to help it to perform its Functions during the great Heats of Summer I have always us'd those three Expedients and have prevail'd with my Friends to put them in practice and I attest with Truth that we have all found a great Benefit by it and that it is very safe to put them in practice No Body can be Ignorant that when there lies Water at a moderate Depth within the Ground for Instance about Three Foot deep which is common at the Bottom of Vales where there lies what we call a good Black Sand. No Body I say can be Ignorant that in such a Case a Natural Philtration or Distillation forms it self in the Depth of that Earth which raises part of that Water up to the Surface which preserving or maintaining the Earth in a good Temperature for Production makes it extraordinary good whereas on the Contrary that Water lying in a great quantity too near the Surface for Example within a Foot or somewhat more being stop'd there by some Bank of soft Chalk Stone or stiff Clay remains there being hindred from descending lower and thereby occasions too great a Moisture in the Earth so that unless a Discharge be made of those Subterraneous Waters or that the Ground be rais'd Ridgewise as I have heretofore Explain'd in order to make those Waters rise such Soil will of Necessity grow Cold Rotten and in a Word stark Nought And indeed we may assure our selves that the Moisture of Soils often proceeds from that Cause as well those that are very Excessive as those that are not That Moisture proceeds sometimes from other Causes as we shall declare in the Sequel I think my self oblig'd to say in this Place that in Relation to the difference of Earth either Strong and Fat or Dry and Light this Distinction is to be made that in Cold Countries light Earth is most to be desir'd to the End that a small Heat may be able to warm it whereas pretty Stony and Fat Soil is best in Hot Countries Heat not penetrating so easily into the Bottom of it or drying up the Plants The Prince of Poets who was Originally of such a Country seems to approve a Fat Earth even for Vines but 't is only in respect to Abundance for as to the Goodness and Delicacy of the Vine he speaks in a different manner shewing that Light Lean Mould is most proper for good Wine as Loamy Ground is for Wheat There are some Soils of so equal a Temperature and so advantageous a Constitution that all manner of Legumes and Trees of any kind whatever succeed incomparably well in them nay which is more those kind of Soils receiving but a common Culture of ordinary Labour or stirring of the Ground for Fruit-Trees preserve themselves good for many Years without the Assistance of any Amendments unless it be for Legumes Happy are those who light upon such when they are about making of a new Garden so as to be able to boast that in their Grounds they meet with all the Important Conditions I have mention'd viz. a Fertile Soil without Taste sufficiently deep moderately light and pretty free from Stones neither too strong and moist or too light and too dry because they may assure themselves of an Infallible Success as to the Ground and consequently what is it they may not expect taking care from time to time to have it search'd and absolutely turned within the Depth heretofore mention'd as well to be certain of its being still in the same Case every where as to enable every part to perform