ENCLOSING, LAYING OUT. 



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of the first two feet wide in this second strip and put it into the 

 bottom of your last trench at A ; you then take the top earth of 

 the second trench at C, and put it on the last trench at A. Thus 

 the whole of the first strip is completed ; and you have again, as 

 you had at a and 5, an empty trench at the end, and the trench 

 next to it with the top earth taken off. You then proceed with 

 the rest of this strip as you did with that of the other, until you 

 come to B, w^hen you turn in at D, and do just the same as you 

 did at C. You then go on to E, when you get there you turn in 

 again at G, and thus you proceed till you come to S, when you 

 will find yourself with the last trench completely empty, and with 

 the next to the last w^anting the top earth. These are both ready 

 for you. You take the heap of bottom earth, which came out of 

 a, and put into your empty trench ; then you take the heap of top 

 earth, which was w^heeled from a and h, and lay it on upon the 

 two last trenches ; and thus all the ground will have been com- 

 pletely moved to three feet nine inches deep, every part of it will 

 have changed its place ; and you will find it to stand a foot or 

 fifteen inches higher than the ground in the neighbourhood of it. 

 Great care should be taken to lay the strips out by straight lines. 

 The best way is to divide each end of the piece into rods by stick- 

 ing up sticks ; and then to mark out the lines from one end of the 

 piece to the other. If only very common care be taken, it is next 

 to impossible not to have straight lines. Equal care should be taken 

 that the trenches themselves be of equal width, and that the lines 

 which mark them out be true and parallel ; but this is so easy a 

 matter, a matter that it would be a shame, indeed, for any one to 

 pretend difficulty in the performance of it. 



26. I have now to speak on the subject of manures as adapted 

 to a garden. Different plants require different sorts of manure, 

 and different quantities. It is certainly true that dung is not the 

 best sort of manure for a garden : it may be mixed with other 

 matter, and, if very jvell rotted, and almost in an earthy state, it 

 may not be amiss ; but, if otherwise u^ed, it certainly makes the 

 garden vegetables coarse and gross compared to what they are when 

 raised with the aid of ashes, lime, chalk, rags, salt, and composts. 

 Besides, dung creates innumerable weeds : it brings the seeds of 

 the weeds along with it into the garden, unless it have first been 

 worked in a hot-bed, the heat of which destroys the vegetative 

 quality of the seeds. 



