€2 Of rural and e^tevfive Gardening. 



common Accident may remove them 5 which, 

 if yoa fufFer, the Lines will be always out 

 of Order, and the Levels fo uncertain, that it 

 will be the greateft Perplexity imaginable to 

 work 5 and at laft, perhaps, it will be all 

 falfe, and to do again ; and this is a misfor* 

 tune that happens fo often, that I can't but 

 tepeat my Dircftions again and again in this 

 Point ; fince by the Carelefsnefs of Work- 

 men, Carters, and Labourers, your Stakes 

 vi^ill be fo confounded, that 'twill be hard 

 to find where about you are, without often 

 beginning de riovo^ and tracing your Levels 

 over again. 



The Gardener ought, therefore, to lay an 

 Heap of Bullies round thefe main Stakes^ to 

 fecurc them againft what may happen, and 

 as for thofe Stakes, that are to be put at every 

 ten or fifteen Foot diftance between them, 

 then it will be time enough to do that juft as 

 your is Work going forward, whichmay.be 

 done with fmaller Stakes ; but be fure thefe 

 angular and main Stakes be ftrong, and drove 

 in by four or five Men as hard as they can 

 drive them, fo will your firft Onfet be fecure, 

 and you may with Pleafure proceed to what 

 follow?. 



And in the firft place, the Ground being 

 thus mark'J out, if yourSwarth and Turffbc 

 good, and the Seafon proper, you are to 

 confider, how to ufe that to the beft Advan- 

 tage. I mean the TurfF cut, as we com- 

 monly 



