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long walk, running from East to West is 6 feet 

 wide, as is also the cross walk, in the middle. 

 All the paths are 3 feet wide. The borders, 

 Nos. 2 and 3, are 9 feet wide. The dimensions 

 of the Plats Nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, are 

 (each) 70 feet from East to West and 56 from 

 North to South. Plat. No. 6, is 56 feet by 50. 

 Plat, No. 4, is 60 teet by 36. The Hot-bed 

 Ground, No. 1, is 70 feet by 36. I leave trifling 

 fractions unnoticed. In the English gardening- 

 books, they call those parts of the garden 

 " Quarters" which I call Plats ; but, for what 

 reason they so call them it would be difficult to 

 conjecture. I call them filats, which is the pro- 

 per word, and a word, too, universally understood. 

 Afilat is a piece of ground; and it implies, that 

 the piece is small^ compared with other larger 

 portions, such as^fe/efo, lots, and the like. I will 

 just anticipate here, that when beds for Aspa- 

 ragus, onions, and other things are made, they 

 should run across the plats from North to South ; 

 and that rows of Corn, Peas, and Beans and 

 other larger things in rows should have the same 

 direction. But, when beds are sown with smaller 

 things, the rows of those things must go across 

 the beds ; as w-ill be seen when we come to speak 

 of sowing. 



61. As to the art of Laying-out, it would be 

 to insult the understanding of an American Far- 

 mer to suppose him to stand in need of any in- 

 structions. A chain i or a line, and/zo/e, are all 

 he can want for the purpose, and those he has 

 always at hand. To form the walks and paths, 

 is, in fact, to lay out the Garden ; but, the walks 

 and paths must be made not only visible, but 



