Of rural and e^te?ifive Gardening. 6 \ 



The Proportion that one would allow in 

 fuch Slopes, where Steps iliould be (and for 

 frugality we make Slopes of Grafs) lliould be 

 at leafk five or fix Foot Horrizontal to one 

 perpendicular ; according to which thefe Slopes 

 are about forty Foot Horizontal, which is full 

 enough ,• and, in cafe of Want, of Room thirty 

 Foot would have done very well. And with this, 

 I Ihall finifli what I had to fay, as to the De- 

 lineation and Profile of this Dcfign, corning 

 now to the Method to be taken in working ir. 



SECTION V. 



Of the Method of working the afore- 

 pientiond Vefign. 



THE Ground being ftak'd out',as is before 

 direfted, v/ith Stakes of 6 Inches (quare, 

 andjif it bea loofe hollow GroundjOf two Foot 

 and a half, or three Foot long : or, if a clayey 

 fall Ground^ one Foot and a half^ or two Foot 

 isfufBcient; if the Stakes drive hard, they ought 

 to be of hardefi:, knotty, furly Oak, and'fo 

 ftrong, that four or five Men may drive them 

 down with Sledges or Beetles as we common- 

 ly call them , for it muft beobfcrv'd, that on 

 the Defign before-going, there are but a few 

 principal Stakes marked therein^ which Stakes 

 ought to be fo fix'd, that no Cart or other 

 ^ com- 



