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side of the walk or path, taking care to fling, or 

 carry, the earth, so dug out, to such a distance, that 

 every part of the ground, which i- not walk or path, 

 receive an equal proportion of what is thus dug out. 

 Gravel may be put in the walks and paths : it makes 

 the whole look neater ; but, in a country where the 

 frost is so hard in winter and the ground so dry in 

 summer, gravel can hardly be said to be necessary , 

 while it maybe troublesome; for, in spite of all 

 you can do, a part of it will get into the borders ; 

 and, there it must do harm. 



62. It will be seen, that about a third part of the 

 Garden is appropriated to Fruit Trees. The rea- 

 son for this, and the uses of the other parts of the 

 ground, will be fully stated in the Chapters on Cul- 

 tivation. I have here treated merely of the form 

 and the dimensions, and of the division, of the Gar- 

 den. It is in treating of the cultivation of the seve- 

 ral sorts of plants that our attention will be brought 

 back to a close contemplation of the several parts 

 included in this division. 



CHAPTER II. 



On the Making and Managing of Hot Beds and 

 Green-houses. 



HOT-BEDS. 



63. I AM not about to lay down rules for person? 

 who can afford to have cucumbers in March. This 

 amounts to something little short of folly in Eng- 

 land : in America, it would be something worse. 

 But, Hot-Beds, as things of real use, are more ne- 

 cessary in America than in England ; because in the 

 former country, the winter will not suffer to exisi 



