t INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS 



weather, the bottom of the walks may be laid 

 with any rough materials three inches thick 

 or more, both to keep the furface drier, and 

 prevent worms cafting up earth from the bot- 

 tom to deface the walk, and on this lay the 

 proper gravel fix inches thick or more, that it 

 may more efFeiSlually keep down the worms as 

 abovefaid, and being of a proper depth to ad- 

 mit of turning it every Spring to give the 

 furface a frefii lively appearancei generally in 

 laying the walks finifh the furface gradually 

 fwelling in a moderate rounding form. 



Or when defigned to have a dilUn«fl com- 

 partment wholly for a flower garden, laid out 

 into regular beds, in which, to cultivate the 

 more curious or capital forts of flowers, fuch 

 as the principal kinds of the bulbous and 

 tuberous-rooted tribe, as the moft efteemed 

 varieties of tulips, hyacinths, jonquils, poly- 

 anthus-narcifl^us, fritillaries, crown-imperials, 

 bulbous irifes,amaryllis, anemones, andranun- 

 culufles, &c. as alfo of any defireable fibrous 

 and flefliy-rooted kinds> both of perennials, 

 biennials, and annuals, an eligible portion of 

 lightifli mellow ground may be afligned for 

 that purpofe, either inclofed or remain open 

 and confpicuous, or fometimes bounded with 

 a low flirubbery plantation, four to Ave or fix 

 feet wide, of the molt beautiful flowering (hrubs, 

 or having, however, the ground laid out in re- 

 gular order, forming an outward border, four 

 ieet wide, leaving a fpace next to this for a 

 walk, then form another border the width of 

 the former, and then the internal quarter 



divided 



