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Another heating will take place, but less furious 

 than the former. Turn it a second time in seven 

 days : and a third time in seven days more. And 

 by this time you will have forty cart loads of ma 

 nure, equal in strength to twenty of yard dung, and 

 a vast deal better for a garden, or, indeed, for any 

 other land. It is not expensive to obtain this sori 

 of manure ; and such a heap, or part of such a heap, 

 might at all times be ready for the use of the gar* 

 den. When such a heap were once formed, some 

 ashes, fish-shells or bones reduced to powder, or 

 other enlivening matter, might be added to it, and 

 mixed well with it ; and thus would a store be al- 

 ways at hand for any part of the garden that might 

 want it. 



FENCING. 



30. Here, as in the case of Situation^ I am sup- 

 posing the garden about to be made. Those who 

 already have gardens, have fences. They may im- 

 prove them, indeed, upon my plan ; but, I am sup- 

 posing the case of a new garden ; and, I am also 

 supposing a garden to be made in what I deem per* 

 fection. Those who cannot, from whatever circum- 

 stance, attain to this perfection, may, nevertheless, 

 profit from these instructions as far as circumstances 

 will allow. 



31. The fence of a garden is an important mat- 

 ter ; for, we have to view it not only as giving ;)ro- 

 tection against intruders, two-legged as well as four- 

 legged, but as affording shelter in cold weather and 

 shade in hot, in both which respects a fence may be 

 made of great utility in an American Garden, where 

 cold and heat are experienced in an extreme degree. 



32. In England the kitchen-gardens of gentlemen 

 are enclosed with walls from ten to sixteen feet 

 high ; but this, though it is useful, and indeed ne- 



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