104 FRUIT BANK. 



injured, as the stones that cast up in removing the 

 earth will immediately be thrown to the base in room 

 of the materials taken away. Thus an effectual 

 provision is made against the springing up of docks, 

 nettles, or other troublesome weeds; the earth re- 

 moved will be an invaluable treasure, whether for 

 making compost or helping a thin soil, and the 

 excavation itself will afford a most convenient re- 

 ceptacle for the immense quantities of stones which 

 occur in trenching or raking the garden. Suppose 

 the filling up in this manner to be nearly completed, 

 let a row of large thin stones, set on edge, run along 

 the southern boundary, and rise two or three inches 

 above the surface of the ground. This will serve 

 to keep the mass of stones distinct from the earth, 

 that there may be no mingling in the process of 

 digging. You have then on the one side of this 

 excavation the low edging, and the other a wall of 

 four or five feet : and the design is, in the course 

 of time, to fill up, with the riddiings of the garden 

 or with clean stones, in whatever way, the whole 

 space from the summit of the low edging to the top 

 of the walk, to present an inclined plane, facing the 

 south and nearly at right angles to the rays of the 

 sun. On this fruit trees are to be trained. 



But in order to save time, before the bank is 

 completed to its proper slope the trees may be 

 planted along the southern boundary, and trained, 

 for two or three years, upon poles laid from the 

 edging to the top of the wall, according to their 

 future destination. When the surface of the slop- 



