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receive from the refle6led heat, which will 

 bring fuch fruits to perfeftion. 



It may perhaps be alledged, that the 

 building of walls is very expenfive. I grant 

 it is the greateft expence that attends the 

 making a fmall garden -, yet as no other 

 fence is fo good either againft man, or 

 beaft, and no other method fo proper for 

 the produftion of good fruits, the lovers 

 of fuch will readily difpenfe with the 

 charge. 



But if a new plantation of fruit-trees, 

 or kitchen-garden, is intended to be in- 

 clofed with walls, the bricklayer ought by 

 all means to be fubjeft to the direction 

 of him who is to make and plant the fame, 

 for feveral reafons and advantages un- 

 known to the builder, by which the ex- 

 pence will not be fo great to the owner, 

 as when walls are built before a ftrift fur- 

 vey is made of the ground, the levels taken, 

 and the nature of the foil carefully examin- 

 ed : for I have known' land inclofed with 

 walls for a garden before the ground- 

 maker had been confulted, in which much 

 labour and materials were unneceffarily 



fpent 



