II. ENCLOSING, LAYING OUT. 



part of the walled garden into which you enter. I will, 

 before I go further, give a particular description of this 

 hot-bed ground, which is by no means an unimportant 

 part of the concern. It is fifty-eight feet and a half from 

 east to west, and sixty-three feet from north to south. A 

 door goes out of it at q, another door at p. These door- 

 ways lead to the several parts of the garden, and are con- 

 venient outlets for all purposes, whatsoever. There is, 

 you will perceive, the wall on the north side of this hot- 

 bed ground, and the wall on the west side. The other 

 two sides should be bounded by a hedge ; and that hedge 

 should be of yew. The fences to hot-bed grounds are 

 frequently made of reed, which are very good for the 

 purpose of shelter ; but which are dead-looking things 

 at the best. The fences to such places are sometimes 

 made of hornbeam ; but this sort of hedge loses its 

 leaves in the winter, and is of little use precisely at the 

 season when it is most wanted. The yew is evergreen. 

 It is by no means difficult to make grow; it does not 

 grow slowly ; it is clipped into any form that you please ; 

 regularly clipped, it remains in the same form for ever j 

 it is as close at the bottom as in the middle of its height ; 

 it has all the regularity of a wall itself; and, in such a 

 case, it is a great deal better than a wall, because it oc- 

 casions no recoiling or reverberation of the wind. The 

 height of the hedge should not much exceed six feet, for 

 then it would shade part of the beds ; and it is hardly 

 necessary to say, that it should be kept regularly clipped 

 twice in the year, in the same manner as is directed for 

 the hawthorn hedge. There should not only be door- 

 ways at p and g, but doors also ; otherwise the wind 

 would sweep in, and, in part, defeat the object of the 



