GARDEN. 
bid fences, where one is capable of anfwering the purpofe, 
proper attention in the diftribution of the internal 
a ts, with perhaps aged equal advantage. 
h hor of the work on “ Country Refidences,”’ 
after obferving that the northern fide of fuch garden-ftrips 
fhould be referved for common crops, and thé fouthern for 
early ones, fuggeits that a :fhrubbery may in fome inftances 
be introduced with propriety in a part of the {pace towards 
order with mixed plants, 
th to the 
£ ground may be applied to the ae of eae vege- 
tables, and the character of utility be more fully pre — 
It occafionally happens, from the declination of the grou 
‘in a foutherly dinedtion, that the uniformity of.fuch « pee 
inclofure can be r 
r the latter only ; whi ch is always a great advan- 
spp —In the diftribution of the quarters or parts 
of the garden, attention fhould be had to the nature, orm, 
naging them, expofure, and fize; but they 
‘made too fmall, as there will be much lofs of ground by 
“the walks, which are effentially neceflary i in their cultiva- 
Jd eir form 
is the fquare, where the garden has been laid out in that 
nner. It is ufual to have borders round the whole of the 
inclofing fences, whether they be conflrn&ted, of brick, 
ftone, or timber; and where there are crofs walls, they are 
generally iniesaad on the fides of them. “Ihe breadths 
of thefe fhould be proportioned to the height of the walls 
and the extent of the garden, as from fix, to 
t 
rees, as their roots will have more room to extend them- 
fe and procure due nourifhment. Befides; wide borders 
are the moft advantageous and econonical in the culture of 
different vegetable erops. * 
Where the gardens are large, other borders may be car- 
ried along on the fides of the walks, between them and the 
efpalier or ftandard fruit-trees; but in other cafes this is 
jnconvenient, as taking up too much of the alee Thefe 
fhould not exceed fix or eight feet in breadt 
aftice to have the "edge s of the 
and planted with dwarf box, 
or fome other ie made ufe of for the purpofe ; but as 
thefe forts of edgings are very liable to be deftroyed i im 
Aifferent aren by wheeling over them, and by that means 
‘become unfightly, it is probably a better method to onl 
hhave the edges of the roa made up firm and even, cloie 
to the gravel of the w 
Walks.—in common pies fhould bea walk introduced on 
dle where 
walks are alfo neceflary where the garden has a great length. 
But as walks take up much ground, there fhould be as few 
as poffible. 0 rders need not 
have more breadth than from four to fix feet; but the 
Vou. 
middle one fhould be feven feet wide, in order that a cart 
may be admitted when neceflary. 
It is alfo neceflary to have a about two feet or two 
feet ie a half wide, and the fame diftance from the walls, 
where there are a for ie convenience of pr 
training, eee n i 
and admitt 
them. 
And: befides thefe permanent walks, when the garden 
are of much extent, trodden path-walks will be a in 
different parts, for the convenience of cultivation, and as 
divifions between the crops of different kinds. 
— the firft forts of mike fhould be laid out ina regular 
manner, and be firmly made up with polar ee itone- 
raveile 
extremely well, alfo pee 1 fifted road ea as they 
may be readily kept clean by the hoe and rake; but fea- 
co fhes are- preferred by fom, as peng ‘a ‘more dry 
upon in thaws, as all as alefal, tales new oe ae in 
preventing flugs from travelling over them from the dif- 
ferent quarters of the ground. 
e narrow walks onthe back fides of the borders near 
the fruit-trees, need not be laid with any fort of coarfe rub- 
bi eing Se . covered over to the depth of a few 
inches with r fea-coal afhes, as by this means the 
h res 
ground may - Saori dug up, and the pat 
laid. 
Whatever fort of material is made ufe a in = ming the 
walks, it fhould be fpread in a neat even » fo as to 
leave them in a regular. ole convex or igi form, 
by which the water will be readily carried off to the fides, 
and the walks kept perfe&tly dry. After the {urface mate- 
rigl bas been thus applied, and evenly raked over, it fhould 
be firmly rolled down by a heavy iron roller, ia occafion- 
ally jn dia after being well moiftened with r 
Sometimes walks 8 are dus with turf or eG “but this i is 
a aed diiieatieh r materi 
ampled upon gar 
Walls.—In building the walls of a ee when: 
the height is cenfiderable, the foundation fhould be from 
two to two bricks and a half in thicknefs, and the off-fct not 
more than one brick above the heicht of the level a the 
order, being then brought toa brick and a half in thick. 
nefs; where they are extenfive, they fhould be ee 
by piers at the diftance of from forty to fixty fect, according 
ofthe beg height. ‘The ele of thefe piers fhould not ke 
ore than about half a brick before the furface of the wall. 
Walls for fee fhould always, if poffible, = iar with 
brick, .as ftone is found not by any means fo favourable 
the maturation of the eens — far more inconv see in the 
nailing of the trees. The er of conftr r hot-walls 
for bringing fruit forward by ny artificial heat will fea defcribed, 
pa e@ Hor-W Att. 
Copings —Some_ advife seit copings of flone or, 
s, and the author” 
