48 THE FORCING GARDENER* [fi. I. 



the border will require no other prepara- 

 tion than being welt enriched with, ftable- 

 dung, and if poffible, a little marl; which 

 ought to be trenched and well mixed, 

 twice or thrice during the Summer before 

 planting. 



But, if the fituatiori is wet, the bottom 

 a cankering gravel or cold clay, and the 

 foil either a poor fand, gravel, or ftubborn 

 clay ; care- muft be taken to render them 

 otherwife, by paving the border to the 

 breadth of twelve or fourteen feet, running 

 a drain in front to carry off the wet, and 

 removing the bad, and bringing in good 

 foil ; fo as to compofe a rich fandy loam 

 to the depth of thirty inches at the wall, 

 and twenty-four in front, allowing three 

 or four inches for fettling. If a new build- 

 ing is erecting for Cherries, it is immate- 

 rial whether the building or border is com- 

 pleted firft, provided the latter has a fuffi- 

 cient time allowed for the mixing and in- 

 corporation of the foil; as the front- wall 

 and flue ftand on pillars, who fe founda- 

 tions ought to be at leaft fix inches deeper, 

 if the border is not paved, than the foil. 



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