ARRANGEMENT OF MATTERS CHAP. 



expense or trouble ; and also, with the least risk of ex- 

 periencing a disappointment of our hopes. 



2. There must be, of necessity, numerous divisions of 

 the matter, where subjects so numerous are to be treated 

 of : and it is of great advantage to take a view of these 

 several divisions before we enter upon the treatise. And, 

 therefore, in this chapter, I shall endeavour to give the 

 reader this view ; so that he will see, not only what he 

 is going to read about j but also the order in which the 

 matter is intended to be brought before him. The 

 SECOND Chapter of the work will describe that which I 

 deem to be the proper Situation of a garden j next, it 

 will treat of the Soil, its nature, its preparation, and the 

 general mode of manuring it, and of making provision of 

 manure : next, of the Form of the Kitchen-Garden, and 

 also of the extent necessary under different circum- 

 stances : next, of the manner of Enclosing the Garden, 

 and of the Walls and other Fences applicable to the pur- 

 pose. The Situation having been fixed on, the Soil pre- 

 pared, the Form determined on, and the enclosures made, 

 the next thing that will be presented to the reader will be 

 the manner of laying out the ground within the enclosure, 

 whether into plats, borders, or otherwise. 



3. The THIRD Chapter will form a sort of Episode, 

 disconnected with the general course of the work. It 

 will treat of the managing of Hot-beds and Green* 

 houses 5 that is to say, it will treat of the management 

 of things which are to be produced by artificial heat ; 

 and that are cultivated by rules exclusively adapted to 

 this species of gardening. I shall not treat of Hot- 



