TO HIS GARDENER 61 



at the Town as far as . 



I have . in writing this to 



show you how your not reading my Letters disconcerts me, 

 and to show you how reasonable my request is when I repeat 

 my desire that you 1 read my Letters. Had you given me an 

 answer as to the number of Thorns and finished all about the 

 House, even the Sneding up the Haining before going any 

 where else, I should have given you directions about the Thorns 

 and the fences at the Town. But I must now follow your 

 scheme and give in^ my own, and you have told me your's so 

 lamely that I can't well know what to say to it. I neither 

 know how many thorns you have for the fences at the Town 

 nor what you U fall short, nor where you '1 begin or what youl 

 leave undone if you have not enough. These and severals 

 other particulars you certainly would have given me, had you 

 thought my opinion of any use even as to the supplying the 

 hedges about the Town. But by not writing more particularly 

 and not telling me something of the Condition of the 

 ditches. ..... 



Upon receipt of this take up all the thorns ^ etc. West from 

 the S. West corner of the Minister's Inclosure below Mr. 

 Gordon's house and West of his ground towards Wilson's 

 house and supply with them as far as they will go any of the 

 ditches round my own Enclosures south of that road that 

 stand good. Dont put in thorns into places where the Dikes 

 or Ditches want to be cast up and mended for that is smother- 

 ing and losing of so many plants by covering of them with 

 earth when mended and made fencible. 



Have any and who of the Tenants called for any trees. 1 



1 Give up my own. 



2 These would be removed to make way for new houses. 



