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to answer the cast of the ground, and be raised to 

 proper heights, according to its extent, the rest is 

 easy, and follows as a matter of course. 



In this particular branch of gardening, utility and 

 simplicity ought to go hand in hand, otherwise true 

 taste will be wanting. It is not in curves, circles, 

 and ogees, we shall find satisfaction. The walls, if 

 the ground will admit of it, should all run in direct 

 lines. They may be built level, or they may be in- 

 clined, so as to suit the general cast of the ground ; 

 but the nearer to a level, the better they will please. 

 The eye is distracted, and the idea totters, in be- 

 holding any building apparently unstable. We can 

 look upon $ mast placed oblique, or on a tree grow- 

 ing aslant, with firmness and satisfaction, because 

 we know the one is supported by ropes, and the 

 other by roots ; but on a wall running much off the 

 level, we look with a degree of distrust, or of fear. 



It is necessary, then, in the first place, to select a 

 piece of ground answerable for the purpose; of good 

 aspect ; sheltered, or that may be sheltered ; lying 

 on a comfortable substratum ; level, or falling to- 

 wards the south, one foot in thirty, or in twenty. 

 If the north wall can be placed quite level, and also 

 the south wall, on a lower level, and so as that the 

 east and west walls shall fall from north to south, a 

 foot in thirty, or in twenty-five ; and if the ground 

 be lengthened from east to west, in the proportion 

 of three to two, the extent being two or three acres ; 

 on such a spot may be erected a garden that will 

 uot fail to please. 



Next, on a spot of the above, or of similar dimen- 



