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The advantage which the landlord derives from such improvements,

seems at no time to have been greater than what was sufficient to

compensate the original expense of making them. In the ancient

husbandry, after the vineyard, a well-watered kitchen garden

seems to have been the part of the farm which was supposed to

yield the most valuable produce. But Democritus, who wrote upon

husbandry about two thousand years ago, and who was regarded by

the ancients as one of the fathers of the art, thought they did

not act wisely who inclosed a kitchen garden. The profit, he

said, would not compensate the expense of a stone-wall: and

bricks (he meant, I suppose, bricks baked in the sun) mouldered

with the rain and the winter-storm, and required continual

repairs.