30 GARDEN WALL TURF-COPE. 



places cost less, requiring only one foot in thick- 

 ness; whereas a mud construction must be twenty 

 inches, or two feet, to have any chance of standing; 

 and even with such expensive thickness, as the wall 

 has not the benefit of a roof over its head, it will 

 be sure, on the slightest failure of the turf-cope, 

 getting soaked, to suffer expansion by frost, and to 

 burst, a mass of hateful ruin, in the February rains. 

 But not failing, the turf-cope is a pest polluting 

 by the seeds of everything vile, both flower borders 

 and gravel walks; and if to prevent the bursting 

 of the wall through the failure of coping, and 

 kindly to save the minister from a pest, as well as 

 to remove from the eye the meanness of a turfy 

 heap which uncouthly mingles with peach blossom, 

 the heritors should determine for a cope of stone; 

 then the needful thickness of a clay wall becomes 

 a very considerable aggravation of the expence. 

 For if freestone be adopted, it is charged by the 

 square foot; and if common stone, for cheapness, be 

 preferred, it is yet not cheap when required of a 

 length not less than two feet such stones being 

 valued not by the weight, but by the difficulty of 

 finding them. 



Supposing the legal dimensions and proper ma- 

 terials freely granted, you may. by a little manage- 

 ment and taste, at nearly the same cost, have a 

 much more efficient fruit wall, and an equally good 

 fence on all sides, with less of formality in the ap- 

 pearance. This is to be done by diminishing the 

 length of mason work, and by adding to the height, 



