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be turned over twice at leaft before plant- 

 ing, in order to mix them the better. 



If the foil of borders is mixt with large 

 pebbles, they muft be picked out, and may 

 be of ufe (though othcrwife hurtful) to 

 lay in the drains* 



And as this kind of land is generally of 

 a loofe fandy nature, it muft be mixt with 

 fomething more ftrong and binding, which 

 is clay, the tougheft that can be got, and 

 neareft. If it be taken from the fides of 

 ditches, whofe foil is naturally a clay, or 

 from ditches in which there is fometimes a 

 current of water falling from tillage fields 

 of that kind of foil, and there leaves its 

 fediment, it will be as good as any. 



At the bottom of the borders lay this 

 clay fix inches thick throughout, it will 

 prevent the moifture from running off too 

 faft in the fummer, as it is apt to do from 

 open fandy ground, efpecially where there 

 are drains made as before direfted; then 

 to each cart-load of clay add three pecks 

 of pigeon dung, or Hme, or five of foot, 

 and mix them with a quantity of the natu- 

 ral foil equal to half of them : if coal or 

 wood aflies are made ufe of inftead of 

 B 4 footj 



