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lejigth of the garden, with an opening in the middle, the 

 breadth of the centre walk, and the fame at each end, 

 the breadth of the fide-walks. The walk in the 

 middle fhould be double the breadth of thole on the 

 fides; which iaft have generally a border equal to their 

 breadth. 



According to the fituation and expofure you make choice 

 cf for walls, the ground is to be difpofed of; and confe- 

 • quently the walk in the middle, the crofs walks, the efpa- 

 liers for fruit, and tiie borders upon which goofeberries 

 and currants are planted through the quarters, as they 

 mull all run in hnes paraikl to the walls. 



The Lefl expofure for walls in this country, is what 

 I have juft recommended, for the advantage of the mor- 

 ning fun ; notvvithftanding it is faid, that by turning theni 

 the leafl point to theeaft, the fruit will fufTer by blights ; 

 but, from experience, I have found more blights from a 

 fouth or fouth-wefl: afped, than I evtr met with from 

 one turned a point or two to the eail of due fouth ; 

 and I am convinced, that with the benefit of the morning 

 fun and this expofure, they will be better protected from 

 the (outh-wefl, and wefl winds, which are remarkably pre- 

 judicial to fruit in this country. In a fituation near the 

 eaftern fea-coafts, I i"houid chufe a due fouth afptft for 

 my bell walls, as the eafl: winds, (from the vicinity of 

 the great Eafrern Ocean) are really dangerous to all fruits. 

 But in a fituation more remote from the fea, I fhould 

 make choice of the afpe6l firfl recommended. 



Having laid out your frft wall, with a fruth afpefl, 

 incHping one or two points to theeaft, this wall direcis the 

 pofition of theother^i, with uhich they are to form right 

 angles. 1 begin with the walls, as they are the outlines 

 of our work, and which I would have executed without 

 any indentions or curvatures, as praftifed by fome, un- 

 der pretence of well ripening the fruit ; nor do I in the 

 lead approve of ereding arches in the lower parts of the 

 wall, in order to pive a greater hbetty of growth to fuch 

 trees as are planted cipp(;jite to them ; as fuch fibres as go 

 to the rear become rancid from the juices they meet 

 with, which mull ever be in a bad Aate, from their being 

 deprived by the wajl of the influence of the fun ; and 

 the confcquence of this practice is, ih: t the fruit falls as 



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