ENCLOSING, LAYING OUT. 



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fit to bear crops in the manner that it ought to bear them. I have 

 taken away, sometimes, a bank which separated two fields : I 

 have dug, manured, and done everything in my power to enrich 

 the land on which the bank stood ; but have never, in any instance, 

 been able to make it, even at the end of several years, equal to 

 the land adjoining it. The truth is, this ground had been so long 

 out of the reach of the influence of the elements, the sun, the 

 frosts, the snows, the air, the rains and the dews, that it was not 

 tit for performing that which earth will not perform without the 

 assistance of these elements. 



24. Therefore, in the work of trenching, the top soil must he 

 kept at the top. This is to be done with the greatest facility 

 imaginable, and with comparatively very little additional expense. 

 Having, in The Woodlands, given full directions for the per- 

 forming of this work, I have here little more to do than to repeat 

 that which I have said there, accompanying my instructions with 

 an explanatory plate. This I may lawfully do, it being only pur- 

 loining from myself ; this method never having been pointed out 

 by any other writer on the subject, as Jar as I have observed ; nor 

 have I perceived that even the thought ever entered the mind of 

 any other man. Yet the reader will perceive that, without pur- 

 suing this method, it would be impossible to make a good garden 

 in some kinds of soil. 



25. The piece of ground that I propose to be made into a 

 garden will be, from outside to outside, ten rods wide and 

 fifteen rods long. This piece of ground ought to be marked 

 into strips or liftSy each a rod wide, in the manner described 

 below. This division into narrow strips takes place, because the 



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