434- "^^he Gardener's New Director. 



Whatever extent your gardens are to be of, let that 

 for your feed be feparated from that where your flowers 

 are to blow ; the whole to be inclofed with high wails, 

 the only fufficient fence in our climate; your fubdivifions 

 may be made by yew hedges, which in fuch places, are 

 better than any other; you may alfo have fome of holly, 

 but by no means of thorns: The fituation (hould be to- 

 lerably flat, but not wet, and be well expofed to the 

 fouth-eafl:, fouth and fouth-wefl: rays of the fun, to be 

 proteded, as much as poflible, from the wefl:, north and 

 eafl winds, by large trees at one hundred feet diftance 

 every way from the walls ; with a pond or bafon of wa- 

 ter well expofed to the fun, as water impregnated by the 

 fun's rays, excels any other for the garden ufe. 



The next neceflary article is a compofl: yard, whofe 

 fituation mufl: be well expofed to the fun, and paved 

 that the falts of the compofl: may not be wafhed and ab- 

 forbed in the earth ; and its fituation near the garden, 

 to be fenced in, and of an extent fufHcient to contain 

 the variety of com|^fl:s, which will be neceflary to an- 

 fwer the fucceffion and variety that may be neceflary, 

 with the rotted tan for your Hyacinths, Oriental Narcijfus 

 and Perftan Ranunculus , whofe beds fliould not only be 

 covered to the depth of four inches over thp furface, 

 but fiiould alfo have four inches of tan laid to the fides 

 and ends of the beds, to the extent of tv/o feet, to pre- 

 vent the froiT: from coming to their roots. 



A good florift fliould never have lefs than three years 

 compofl: by him, and their different heaps marked with 

 long poles, bearing the names of the flowers they are 

 intended, with the date when firfl: laid down ; obferving to 

 have heaps in fuccefllon for three years at leaf!:, which will 

 not be a difiicuit matter, if attended to at firfl: fetting out. 



The next thing necelTary for a gardener is a root- 

 room, to be confl:ru6:ed in extent as may fuit him, which 

 muft have windows in the end to the wefl:, and in the 

 north and fouth fides; and the eafl: end fhcnld have a 

 lar2;e door, to take in boxes or chefl:s of roots, as they 

 come packed up : And in this room, there fhould be 

 fhelves on the two fides by the windows from top to bot- 

 tpmj for to receive drawers, divided fo as to receive the 



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