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of the garden ; and it is frequently very 

 difficult to find both a flickered fituation. 

 and a kindly foil. The laft objed, how- 

 ever, in my opinion, ought to give way to 

 the firft, for the following reafons : In a 

 complete garden, different kinds of foil are 

 abfolutely neceflary, particularly for the 

 fruit-tree borders ; and were the foil ever 

 fo bad, there is no difficulty in rendering 

 it otherwife, in the fpace pf a few months; 

 but where Ihelter is wanting, many years, 

 even where the foil is good, are requifite 

 to the production of it, in a tolerable de- 

 gree. 



A fine # garden is certainly a great lux- 

 ury ; and furely nobody would" be at 

 the expence of building and planting one, 



who 



* The garden at Wemyfs CafUe is placed in the 

 middle of a plantation whofe trees are an hundred feet 

 high ; for the lite of which, and alfo the fhrubbry, 

 the whole ground was' to clear. The half at leaft of 

 the foil now within the walls was brought from the 

 fields. The fruit-tree borders were all entirely made, 

 and generally cut out of the rock ; none of which are 

 lefs than a yard deep. This was done merely for the 

 fake of ftielter ; as there are fituations hard by, where, 

 the foil is excellent, but witljput flicker. The garden 

 was begun and finiihed within lixteen ninths, , 



