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side of the walk or path, taking care to fling, or 

 carry, the earth, so dug out, to such a distance, that 

 every part of the ground, which is not walk or path, 

 receive an equal proportion of what is thus dug out. 

 Gravel may be put in the walks and paths : it makes 

 the whole look neater ; but, in a country where the 

 frost is so hard in winter and the ground so dry in 

 summer, gravel can hardly be said to be necessary^ 

 while it may be troublesome ; for, in spite of all 

 you can do, a part of it will get into the borders ; 

 and, there it must do harm. 



62. It will be seen, that about a third part of the 

 Garden is appropriated to Fruit Trees. The rea- 

 son for this, and the uses of the other parts of the 

 ground, will be fully stated in the Chapters on Cul- 

 tivation. I have here treated merely of the form 

 and the dimensions, and of the division, of the Gar- 

 den. It is in treating of the cultivation of the seve- 

 ral sorts of plants that our attention will be brought 

 back to a close contemplation of the several parts 

 included in this division. 



CHAPTER II. 



On the Making and Managing of Hot Beds and 

 Green-houses, 



HOT-BEDS. 



63. I AM not about to lay down rules for persons 

 who can afford to have cucumbers in March, This 

 amounts to something little short of /o/Z^^ in Eng- 

 land : in America, it would be something worse. 

 But, Hot-Beds^ as things of real use, are more ne- 

 cessary in America than in England ; because in the 

 former country, the winter will not suffer to exist 



