THE SCOTS GARD'NER 



grow up, they cover and choak the ground, so that 

 you will be necessitate to seek for another. There- 

 fore, make only three bordures next and parallel 

 to the walks around, on each hand ; plant the first, 

 or that next the walke, on both sides with a holly- 

 hedge ; the second with goosberries and currans, 

 and the third with dwarf -trees; keeping the ground 

 all open and void within for kitchen-herbs and 

 roots ; which must be orderly divided into ridges ; 

 and these again divided into beds, furrowes, and 

 drills, for your more orderly and convenient plant- 

 ing and sowing. 



As for proportion^ note that your walkes extend 

 in breadth according to their length, viz. a thousand 

 foot long, thirty foot broad ; five hundred foot long, 

 twenty foot broad; two hundred and fifty in length, 

 fifteen in breadth ; and an hundred foot long, ten 

 foot broad. 



Make the bordures six foot broad ; the tables or 

 pathes betwixt the level ridges, wherein the ground 

 is divided, three foot broad ; the beds, six foot broad, 

 with foot and half furrowes : you may make seven 

 of these beds in each ridge, and the whole length 

 of the plot all running from the house : but if your 

 ground be small, you may make your bordures and 



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