TO THE FLOWER GARDEN. f 



may either be level or moderately rifiiig or 

 floping pofition, or where unequally high and 

 low, it may be regulated by lowering or 

 raifing the inequalities as may bt required, or 

 fome parts in more extenfive pleafure grounds 

 may be varied in moderate gradual rifings, 

 elevations, and declivities, &c. or where any 

 particular improvement in foils, comports, or 

 lituations are necelTary for any choice kind? 

 of flowers and (hrubs, it is generally hinted 

 under their refpedive heads or divifions of the 

 different tribes. 



The inclofure, or general outward fence 

 piay either be a wall or paling, &c. or a hedge 

 planted in the fide or top of a bank, railed 

 and defended by an outward ditch, or fomc 

 parts where the fuuation is eligible, may 

 have a funk fence in a foiTe or ha-ha, to 

 admit of dillant profpe(5l, mere efpecially at 

 the termination of the ground, or as conve- 

 nient. 



The feveral compartments of borders and 

 Arubbcry clumps for the reception of the 

 various flowers and fhrubs, &c. fhould be 

 properly digged one fpade deep, either in 

 Autumn or Spring, at the time for fowing 

 and planting ; and generally raked even in a 

 neat manner, efpecially the flower borders; 

 and as to the feafons and methods of fowing 

 and planting, it is explained under the ref- 

 pedive heads of the different tribes of plants, 

 ihrubs, and trees. 



For the foregoing different compartments 

 of the fiower and pleafure- ground, there is a 

 ^ ' nuir.e« 



