7 THE FORCING GARDENER. [B. I. 



method of rendering a bad one comfort- 

 able. 



A gentle hill, having a fouth afpe<3 #, 

 and confiderable declivity that way, the 

 foil a ftrong brown loam of two feet, over 

 a bottom of dry and, gravel, or foft clay ; 

 is the molt defirable, and in forming the 

 border, would be the leaft expenfive of all 

 fituations. In which cafe, the iite would 

 require no paving or draining ; and would 

 admit of a proper mixture of fandy loam, 

 vegetable mould, marl, and dung, (by the 

 removal of two feet of thejiatural bottom), 

 with the natural foil, to form a border, 

 perfectly adapted to the growth of the 

 vine, in the following proportion, viz. One 

 half ftrong brown loam, a quarter light 

 fandy loam, an eighth vegetable mould of 

 decayed tree-leaves, and an eighth ftable- 

 dung j to which add about a fiftieth part of 

 fhell-marl. Such was the composition of 

 the vine borders at Wemyfs Caftle ^ none 

 of which were formed lefs than four feet 

 deep, and one (owing to the accidental fi- 

 tuation of the houfe) was fix. 



Neverthelefs, 



* All hot-houfes fliould face the meridian fun, if con- 

 veniency will by any means permit -, but a fmall varia- 

 tion to the eaft or weft, is not attended with any inju- 

 rious confequence. 



