TREATING OF CONTRIVANCE 



use not to make them less than six foot diameter 

 for ordinary trees ; and you may suffer the outer- 

 row of stakes to stand till you plant the rest, that 

 you may view thereby. 



CHAPTER IV 



HOW TO MAKE THE KITCHEN-GARDEN 



THE kitchen-garden is the best of all gardens. In 

 every garden it is ordinary, first, to make a bordure 

 at the wall ; secondly, a walke ; and thirdly, a bor- 

 dure on the other side of the walke : thus the walke, 

 with a bordure on each side of it, going round the 

 whole plot, parallel to the wall : but if your ground 

 be large enough, I bid you to make a larger distance 

 betwixt the walke and the wall. It is also ordinary 

 to divide the garden into four plots, by two walkes 

 crossing from side to side : but I am not for any 

 cross- walkes in gardens ; yet if you would have 

 more than one, which divides the whole into two 

 parts, make them all parallel through the plot, lead- 

 ing to the house, and equi-distant from the middle, 

 still making the gates, doors, or entries front the 

 walkes. 



In your kitchen-plots, and in nurseries for trees, 

 plant no trees through the ground; for when they 



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