TO THE FLOWER GARDEN. 7 



divided into beds three or four feet wide, 

 with alleys twelve to eighteen inches, or two 

 feet wide between the beds, which, and the 

 borders may either be edged with box or 

 thrift, or feme with daifies, &c, or in want 

 of fufficiency of thefe for edgings, the edges 

 may be beat up with a fpade, firm, even, and 

 ftraight, and the walks and alleys laid with, 

 fine gravel, &c. 



But as in many places, limited to a fmall 

 or moderate extent of ground, the flower 

 garden, &c. and kitchen ground are planned 

 all in one, having borders next the main 

 walks for the flowers, and fome beft low- 

 growing flowering fhrubs ; and the internal 

 quarters ferve for the cultivation of the kit- 

 chen efculents ; generally forming a border kll 

 round next the wall or outward fence, three 

 or four to five or fix feet wide, or more, a walk 

 next to this the fame width, or fix to eight or 

 ten feet in larger gardens, then another bor- 

 der next the walk the width of the firft, and 

 within this have the large quarters for the 

 kitchen ground, and if the dimenfions of :he 

 garden in width admits, may have a principal 

 middle walk extending the whole length of 

 the ground, with a handfome flower border 

 on each fide, and towards the back part of 

 thefe borders adjoining the internal quarters.. 

 xn ay have a range of efpalier fruit trees, or 

 fome backed with flowejing flirubs, and Jf 

 the borders, where flirubs are intended, aire 

 raifed floping higheft behind, they would have 

 a more agreeable effe<^, and in which border - 



