II. ENCLOSING, LAYING OUT. 



paper-mills and powder-mills, it falls into the river Wey, 

 The two end walls of the garden have plantations of 

 trees at the back of them ; so that, except that here is 

 no ground, except the terrace, which is not upon the 

 slope, this garden, which is said to have been laid out by 

 SIR PHILIP EVELYN for some member of the family of 

 HOWARD, is every thing that one could wish. The 

 mansion-house stands at a little distance opposite the 

 garden, on the other side of the brook ; and, though all 

 the grounds round about are very pretty, this kitchen- 

 garden constitutes the great beauty of the place. Here, 

 too, though EVELYN might have revived, this charming 

 spot was chosen, the garden was made, and the cloyster 

 of yew-trees planted, by the monks of the Priory of 

 St. Austin, founded here in the reign of Richard I., and 

 the estates of which Priory were given by the\ bloody 

 tyrant to SIR ANTHONY BROWN. 



SOIL. 



20. THE plants and trees which grow in a garden, 

 prefer, like most others, the best soil that is to be found j 

 and the best is, good fat loam at the top, with a bottom 

 that suffers the wet gently to escape. But, we must take 

 that which we happen to have, avoiding, if we possibly 

 can, a stiff clay or a gravel, not only as a top-soil, but as 

 a bottom-soil also, unless at a very great distance. Oak 

 trees love clay, and the finest of that sort of timber grows 

 oh such land j but, no trees that grow in a garden love 

 clay, and they are still less^ fond ef gravel, which always 

 burns in summer time, and which sucks up the manure, 

 and carries it away out of the reach of the roots of the 





