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though one of eight may do. A garden should be 

 so situated, to be as much warmer as possible, than 

 the general temper of the air is without, or ought to 

 be made warmer by the "ring, and subdivision fences : 

 This advantage is essential to the expectation we 

 have from a garden locally considered. 



As to trees planted without the wall, to break the 

 wind, it is not to be expected to reap much good 

 this way, except from something more than a single 

 TOW ; i. e. a plantation. Yet the fall of leaves by 

 autumnal winds is troublesome, and a high wall is 

 therefore adviseable. Spruce jirs have been used in 

 close shorn hedges ; which as evergreens, are proper 

 enough to plant for a screen in a single row, though 

 not very near to the wall ; but the best evergreens foe 

 this purpose are the evergreen oak, and the cork tree. 

 The witch elm, planted close, grows quick, and has 

 a pretty summer appearance behind a wall ; but is of 

 little use then, as a screen, except to the West ; where 

 still, it may shade too much (if planted near) as it 

 jnounts high : In a dry hungry soil, the beech also is 

 very proper, and both bear cutting. The great maple, 

 commonly called the sycamore, is handsome, of quick 

 growth, and being fit to stand the rudest blasts, will 

 protect a garden well in a very exposed situation: 

 the wind to be chiefly guarded against^as to strength, 

 in most places, being the westerly. 



Thejbrm of a garden may be a square, but an ob- 

 long is to be preferred ; and the area rather a, level ; 

 or if there be any slope, it should be southward, a 

 point either to the East or/Vest not much signifying, 

 but not to the North, if it can be avoided, because 

 crops come in late, and plants do not stand the winter 

 so well in such a situation. A garden with & northern 

 aspect, has, however, its advantages, being cooler for 

 some summer productions, as strawberries, spring- 

 gown cauliflowers, c. and therefore to have a little 



