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In a hop garden, a fruit garden, a kitchen garden, both the rent

of the landlord, and the profit of the farmer, are generally

greater than in acorn or grass field. But to bring the ground

into this condition requires more expense. Hence a greater rent

becomes due to the landlord. It requires, too, a more attentive

and skilful management. Hence a greater profit becomes due to the

farmer. The crop, too, at least in the hop and fruit garden, is

more precarious. Its price, therefore, besides compensating all

occasional losses, must afford something like the profit of

insurance. The circumstances of gardeners, generally mean, and

always moderate, may satisfy us that their great ingenuity is not

commonly over-recompensed. Their delightful art is practised by

so many rich people for amusement, that little advantage is to be

made by those who practise it for profit; because the persons who

should naturally be their best customers, supply themselves with

all their most precious productions.