146 THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



of any garden ; in which case, if it be situated as 

 above described, and contain, suppose four acres, 

 the east and west walls should be fifteen, and the 

 south wall only twelve feet high, in order that it 

 may give the necessary relief to the eye. 



In a garden four hundred feet long, and three 

 hundred feet broad, which forms a handsome pa- 

 rallelogram, and contains something above two Eng- 

 lish acres, if the ground lie on an easy slope, a 

 very eligible height for the north wall is sixteen feet; 

 for the east and west walls, fourteen ; and for the 

 south wall, twelve. But if the ground be quite level, 

 or be nearly so, the north wall being the same 

 height, the east and west walls should only be thir- 

 teen and a half feet, and the south wall, eleven feet 

 in height ; or, the east and west walls may only be 

 thirteen, and the south wall ten feet high, if it be a 

 dead level. 



With respect to the coping of garden-walls, much 

 has been said, and opinions are at variance. Some 

 insist/that the coping should not project beyond the 

 face of the wall, and others, that it should project 

 several inches, in order to throw the drip off the 

 foliage. Others, again, give it a slope to the north, 

 or to the west side, in order to throw all the water to 

 the worst aspect, or to that not covered with trees. 



It may be right to throw the whole of the water 

 to the side not covered with fruit-trees ; but it is 

 wrong to throw it all to the worst aspect, if that 

 aspect be planted ; being doubly disadvantageous 

 to the trees placed on it, if there be any disadvan- 

 tage in the rains falling upon them ; which indeed 



