Of rural and extenfiv^ Gardening. ^5 



the good Mold you can there find, carrying 

 it either immediately into Heaps or Leftals, 

 or otherwife to your Kitchen Garden, or 

 Quarters and Divifions of Wood, &c. This 

 Care ought by all means to be taken, where 

 your Earth is Ihallow, or but indifferent 5 but 

 where your Earth lies naturally very deep, 

 there needs no fuch Expence, but this with 

 all the coarfer Earth may be jumbled toge- 

 ther in the making thole Terraces, that are 

 defign'd round the Houfe 5 but 'tis very 

 much to be doubted, where one may once 

 in ten times find fo happy a Scituation and 

 Soil, as not to require our former Care and 

 Pains. 



The Turff thus (fuppofedly) carried away* 

 we may obferve our Level Stakes from two 

 Foot to fix Inches high above the natural 

 Ground, and perhaps a confiderable deal 

 more. Thefe Stakes are thea to be filled up 

 with the Earth, dug out of the Foundations 

 of the Building and the Cellars-, and after- 

 wards, if tho(? Terraces are not quite filled 

 up, then we muft have Recourfe to borrow 

 of our Neighbouring Plats to finiili t hem, and 

 here, as has been before obfcrv'd, it can't 

 pofllbly do much hurt, tho* by a more ju- 

 dicious Calculation, we might have fav'd 

 fbrne Expence, but our Plinth is fix*d, and 

 we are obligd to work up to it in all our 

 Levels. However, as I have already urged, 

 'tis an Error on the Right Side, and is much 



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