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varieties, are feen in abundant perfection within this 
well-fenced, trenched, and manured inclofure. 
The fcite is a gentle declivity open to the fouth, 
(and fome few points to the eaft and weft) while to 
‘the oppofite quarter the ground rifes rather abrupt; 
above which ftretches an extended neck or plat- 
form, nearly eaft and weft; and a fteep acclivity 
advances to the north, the ridge of which height, 
planted with refinous trees, whofe perennial foliage 
defends it from the feverity of that quarter, will 
probably render innoxious the frequent blighting 
gales that blow from it, and its conneéting quarter 
the eaft. On this extent of level are planted the 
various orchard-trees, {kirted on its fide, and fome- 
times fides, with divers ornamental fhrubs; fome of 
which may be included in the plan of utility. Be- 
neath this platform, open to the benign quarters, is 
the kitchen-garden, interfeéted by walls, frequently 
curving in a crefcent form, where the concentrated 
and longer-refleéted rays of the fun quicken to mae 
turity and more perfeé flavour the various fpecies of 
wall-fruit affixed to them; with this farther advan- 
tage, that their reflex warmth promotes, within the 
 divifions they form, the fallads, pulfe, and, generally 
fpeaking, the roots which they inclofe. 
~ Tfpeak but little of a Aot, or rather green, houfe, 
within their boundaries, as the amufement of the 
éurious in foreign produétions can hardly be in- 
“i within the general fubjeét of utility, which 
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