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the whole neighbourhood ; or, keep it for your 

 own use by a fence which they cannot get 

 through, under, or over. Such a fence, however, 

 it is no trifling matter to make. It must be 

 pretty high ; and must present some formidable 

 obstacles besides its height. 



34. With regard to the second point; the 

 shelter ; this is of great consequence ; for, it is 

 very well known that, on the south side of a 

 good high fence, you can have peas, lettuce, 

 radishes, and many other things, full ten days 

 earlier in the spring, than you can have them in 

 the unsheltered ground. Indeed, this is a capi- 

 tal consideration ; for you have, by this means, 

 ten days more cf spring than you eould have 

 without it. 



35. The shade, during the summer, is also 

 valualle. Peas will thrive in the shade long 

 after they will no longer produce in the sun* 

 Currant trees and Goosberry trees will not do 

 well in this climate unless they be in the shade. 

 Raspberries also are best in the shade ; and, 

 during the heat of summer, lettuce, radishes, 

 and many other things thrive best in the shade. 



36. It will be seen presently, when I come to 

 speak of the/or /w of a garden, that I have fixed 

 on an Oblong- Square, twice as long as it is 

 wide. This gives me a long fence on the North 

 side and also on the South side. The former gives 

 me a fine, warm extensive border in the spring, 

 and the latter a border equally extensive and as 

 cool as I can get it, in the heat of summer. Of 

 the various benefits of this shelter and this shade 

 I shall, oii course, speak fully, when I come to 

 treat of the cultivation of the several plants * 



