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Of making a GARDEN. 
| HIE Care and Management of every Part | exceeding our original Plan; by avoiding Repe- 
of the Ground as neceflary for the pre-.| tition in thofe few Weeks where nothing new was 
fent Week, the practical Student will find in | required to be done: and we fhall, in this and 
the firft Number of this Work. We have com- | the fucceeding Numbers, after the Accounts as 
pleated the Circle of a Year; for *twas in the | ufual of half a Dozen Plants in Seafon, compleat 
laft Week of the preceeding Auguft we began; and | the practical Gardener’s Inftruction in the making a 
we fhall have now an Opportunity to confider the | Garden; and deliver thofe Methods in particular 
general Arrangement of a Garden, the Choice of | and moft ufeful Inftances, which the Gardeners 
the Ground, and its Difpofition, with the Manner | keep as their felect and valu’d Secrets. 
of original Plantation; as alfo to enter upon other The Tafte for Gardening is at this Time fo 
the moft effential and neceffary Articles of the | univerfal, that befide the Improvement upon the 
Profeffion. : : -falfe Manner of our Ancettors in the old, new ones 
As the Leffons to be given on this moft | will be continually now rifing ; and as the Seafon 
important Head require the Compafs of a few | approaches for moft rationally beginning this 
Sheets, we have taken this Opportunity without 
Work, it will be now Time to lay the Plan. 
LACASLAASSO NACA LO RNAS LOLLNISTE SOROS 
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GEE ASP. i 
The Choice of the Ground. ~ 
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| firft Article, and of all others it demands 
moft Care; becaufe an Error in that Refpect is 
never to be remedied. 
: HE Choice of Ground for a Garden, is the eontdercd. the Situation, A fpect, or Expofure, 
and Soil. 
In regard of Situation the three Kinds are an 
Elevation, a Declivity, or a Plain, By the Term 
In this Matter the fame Rules will ferve for a | Elevation the Gardener will underftand we mean 
Piece of one Acre, or of ever fo large Extent; 
and, in general, the fame Idea of its Difpofition : 
in England Ground is plentiful enough; and moft 
of it is fertile, or capable of being made fo; there- 
fore Jet the Perfon, who is about to make a Gar- 
den, take the Advantage he has of chufing ; and 
comprehend in his Mind all the Requifites and 
Advantages before he fixes upon a Spot. 
_ Had we begun the Work with this Article, 
every Thing would have been new, and every 
Thing ftrange to the Reader; he would not 
have remembered afterwards what he could not 
underftand; and the Leffon would have been 
given with little Advantage. 
. As we have now gone through the general Ar- 
ticles of Culture, we fhall be underftood in every 
Direction relating to the Ground ; he will remem- 
ber that a particular Situation, Soil, and Ex- 
pofure are neceffary, who knows why they are 
requifite ; and a few Words will thus ftand in 
the Place of Pages. 
In the Choice of a Piece of Ground for a 
Garden, three Things are moft effential to be 
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the Top of a Hill, by a Declivity its Side, or a 
-Defcent, and by a Plain a flat Piece of Ground. 
Fle very well knows that the Top of a Hill 
will be bleak, the Side temperate, and the Plain 
naturally damp. The Choice would be made 
at once, if no more Confiderations occurred 
but we mutt inform the Gardener of the 
whole. | 
The firft Idea of Gardening, and that which 
prevails in many Countries at prefent, is the laying 
out a great Extent of Ground in fomething lefs 
than its natural Wildnefs : the Idea in this is vat, 
and tho’? the Work be rude, it cannot but be 
pleafing. 
In departing from this Tafte, our Fathers fun 
into the oppofite Extream. Inftead of having every 
Thing free, wild, and extenfive; all was limited 
and confined. Four Walls bounded the ‘Spot, 
and clip’d Yews took the Place of waving Oaks 
and branching Elms; a few ill-conftru@ted Pa- 
vilions were the only Objects; and dirty Ponds 
the Water. 
It is common in avoiding one Fault, to run 
into 
