SECT. III. OF A GARDEN. 



subdivision, or screen, &c. may be made of elms or 

 limes, setting the larger plants at -Ive feet asunder, 

 and a smaller one between. Or an ordinary fence, 

 or subdivision, may be quickly formed of elder cut- 

 tings, stuck in at two feet asunder, which may be 

 kept cut within bounds. 



The walls come next under consideration, and they 

 are to be begun from the best wall ; the border of 

 which being regularly levelled and settled, the walk- 

 is to be governed by it. A wide border, next the- 

 South (as was said) is best for the trees, and more- 

 over for the many uses that may be made of it foe 

 the smaller early, or late tender esculents, and a few 

 early cauliflowers. For the sake of a pleasant shel- 

 tered walk, to have the South border narrow may be 

 desirable ; but on no account let it be within six feet. 

 Take care that this walk is not sunk too much, and 

 that it have a bottom of good earth, as deep as 

 where the trees are planted. Let the body of gra- 

 vel be thin, and then the roots of the trees will be 

 admitted to run properly under the walk, and find 

 wholesome nourishment ; where if they were stop- 

 ped by rubbish, they would be apt to canker, and 

 irrecoverably disease the tree. 



The number and breadth of the walks must in a 

 measure be determined by the quantity of allotted 

 ground ; exceeding in these particulars where there 

 is room. But better be few and wide walks, than 

 many and contracted. If the garden is small, one 

 good walk all round is sufficient; and if long and 

 narrow, the cross walks should not be many : six, 

 or eight feet walks, are not too wide for a moderate 

 sized garden. 



If the ground be laid out in Autumn, leave the 

 walks alone till Spring, when the earth will be set- 

 tled. Gravel laid towards Winter would be dis- 

 turbed by the frost, and the necessary work about the 



