II. ENCLOSING, LAYING OUT. 



building being high enough to allow the eves of the roof 

 to be six feet from the ground j and the back being 

 towards the hedge, and not towards the wall. As to 

 water, I have not pointed out any particular place 

 in the garden for a well or other means of obtaining 

 water. It will be seen, by-and-by, that I am of opinion 

 that a great deal of time and labour bestowed upon 

 watering are, in general, so much time and labour thrown 

 away, and to effect injury instead of good. Never- 

 theless, there are many cases in which watering by hand 

 is absolutely necessary : in hot-beds, for instance j in the 

 case of plants in pots ; in the case of things which can be 

 shaded during the day ; in the case of cauliflowers, 

 which grow so much larger and finer when dishes are 

 made round them and plenty of water given. Therefore, 

 there musl be water used in a garden of this extent j and 

 to bring it from any considerable distance would be 

 a thing extremely inconvenient and attended with great 

 expense. If running water can be brought through 

 a part of the garden, that is the desirable thing ; and, 

 when we see the great number of situations where this 

 might be done at a mere trifling expense, we are asto- 

 nished at the small number of instances in which it has 

 ever been attempted. There is scarcely an instance, 

 where we find a mansion-house of any considerable size, 

 where a river, a brook, or a spring, might not be made 

 to furnish a run of water for the garden. Above ground 

 or under ground, until it came to the wall, where an arch 

 and a grating might be made to let it in, a channel to 

 conduct it across, and another arch and grating to let it 

 out again. Running water, besides the prettiness of it, 

 would give banks or edges for the growth of several 



