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hints on this head ; and would here fur- 

 ther obferve, that in few inftances is it 

 advifable to lay down a garden on a level 

 fpot, fuch feldom having a dry bottom, 

 and being drained with more difficulty, if 

 requifite, than when there is a declivity. 

 A north afpedl is alfo to be avoided, and 

 preference fhould be given to a fouth, 

 fouth-eaft, or fouth-weft : but even an eaft 

 or weft afped:, in many cafes, may prove 

 excellent fltuations. A declivity of from 

 a foot in twelve to a foot in thirty or 

 forty will generally anfwer \ but about 

 one in twenty-five has the happieft effect. 



The rule I had laid down- and which I 

 have partly practifed, is this, viz. To take 

 three crops off the firft furface, then 

 trench 'three fpit deep, by which the bot- 

 tom and top is reverfed, and the middle 

 remains in the middle ; take three crops 

 off this furface, and then trench two fpit, 

 by which the top becomes the middle, and 

 the middle the top ; and take alfo three 

 crops off this furface, and then trench 

 three fpit, whereby that which was laft 

 the middle, .and now top, becomes the bot- 

 X torn, 





