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\vho would not alfo wifh to fee it in 

 perfection, and partake of its fruits. As, 

 then, as it is prefumed, it will never arrive 

 to that perfedion in this country without 

 flicker, which it may with it ; it is furely 

 preferable to lay down a garden in a fhel- 

 tered fituation with a bad foil, to laying it 

 down in an unsheltered one with a good 

 foil ; fince the one may be remedied in a 

 few months, and the other, perhaps, not in 

 a. lifetime. 



The happieft fituation for a garden is, a 

 gently elevated hill, having a fouth, fouth- 

 eaft, or fouth- weft afpecl, encompafled- on 

 all fides with plantations at the diftance of 

 about one hundred yards from its walls. 

 In this cafe, it fhould be made a paral- 

 lelogram, whofe breadth is equal to two- 

 thirds of its length, (according to the fize 

 required), extending in length from eaft 

 to weft. This is not only the handfomeft 

 and moft-approved form of a garden ; 

 but it gives greater length of a fouth 

 afped than when made fquare. If the 

 garden is very extenfive, it fhould be 

 .equally divided by a wall running north 

 and fouth, 



Between 



