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SITUATION, SOIL, 



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manner, as directed for the honey locusts ; then, when they have 

 stood a year thus, cut them down nearly close to the ground, which 

 will bring three or four shoots out of each plant ; and, with a little 

 topping and side-pruning, carefully perfonned, they will, in about 

 five years after being planted, form a very beautiful and eifectual 

 fence. Neither of the thorns is raised much more quickly ; and 

 certainly there is no comparison for such a purpose between an 

 evergreen and a deciduous tree. And, there is this further advan- 

 tage, w ith regard to the holly, that it will flourish in any soil from 

 the dryest and most arid bank, to the wettest and sourest clay ; 

 and as to duration, as a plant, nothing but the yew-tree equals 

 the holly. 



LAYING-OUT. 



35. Having now given instructions relative to the Situation, the 

 Soil, Form, and Extent, and the Enclosing of the garden, there re- 

 mains to speak, in this Chapter, only of the laying of it out into 

 plats, borders, paths, and walks. A judicious distribution of the 

 ground is a great matter ; for, if any part of it be awkward to get 

 at, great additional labour is occasioned ; and if there be not the 

 proper quantity of paths and walks, there must be great tramp- 

 ling of the ground, and very great inconveniences of various sorts. 

 The outer garden, tliat is to say, the garden between the hedge and 

 the wall, will not require much attention in the making of paths : 

 the whole of it will be land pretty constantly under cultivation, to 

 within about four or five feet of the wall ; and a path there, that 

 is to say, at that distance from the wall, trodden out upon the 



. • common ground, and just sufficient to pass along for the purpose 

 of managing the trees w'hich are against the wall, wiil be sufficient. 



36. But, with regard to the garden itself, where the width is 

 considerable, great care mu5t be taken that every part of the ground 

 can be come at without inconvenience ; that there be borders suf- 

 ficiently wide for the roots of the wall-trees to extend themselves 

 in ; and that the several plats of ground be easily come at for the 

 purpose of manuring, and for all other purposes. I subjoin a plan, 

 w hich I deem the most proper for a garden of the extent that I 

 have recommended. I shall first give the plan on the opposite 

 page ; and, when I have subjoined the explanations of this plan, I 

 shall proceed to make some remarks on it. 



