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manure, equal in strength to twenty of yard 

 dung, and a vast deal better for a garden, or, 

 indeed, for any other land. It is not expensive 

 to obtain this sort of manure ; and such a heap, 

 or part of such a heap, might at all times be 

 ready for the use of the garden. When such a 

 heap were once formed, some ashes, fish-shells 

 or bones reduced to powder, or other enlivening 

 matter, might be added to it, and mixed well with 

 it ; and thus would a store be always at hand for 

 any -part of the garden that might want it. 



FENCING. 



SO. Here, as in the case of Situation, I am 

 supposing the garden about to be made. Those 

 who already have gardens, have fences. They 

 may improve them, indeed, upon my plan ; but, 

 I am supposing the case of a new garden ; and, 

 I am also supposing a garden to be made in 

 what I deem perfection. Those who cannot, 

 from whatever circumstance, attain to this per- 

 fection, may,- nevertheless, profit from these in- 

 structions as far as circumstances will allow. 



31. The fence of a garden m is an important 

 matter ; for, we have to .view it not only as 

 giving protection against intruders, two-legged as 

 well as four-legged, but as affording shelter in 

 cold weather and shade in hot, in both which 

 respects a fence may be made of great utility 

 in an American Garden, where cold and heat 

 are experienced in an extreme degree. 



32. In England the kitchen-gardens of gen- 

 tlemen are enclosed with walls from ten to six- 

 teen feet high ; but this, though it is useful, and 

 indeed necessary, in the way of protection 



