The V radical Kitchen Gardiner. 



lies open, to the South-Eaftern embraces 

 of the fun^ and where tlie winds may 

 blow over it, is a very good fituation ; 

 becaufe there the winds do not only 

 blow over, but the beams of the fun 

 are more comprefsxi and kept in : It- his 

 indeed one difadvantage, that it pens in 

 the winds as well as the fun 5 but this 

 mufl: be remedied by reed-hedges, and 

 the planting efpalier and ftandard tre'^eS 

 at fome certain diftance, to break thofe 

 winds that are fo pernicious or hurtful 

 to the melonry, or for them to lodge 

 or be loft in j which all trees arid hedges 

 are more apt to do, becaufe the winds 

 lodge foftly in them, and don't rever- 

 berate as they do in walled gardens. 

 The next plate I have fubjoined as a 

 proper plan for fuch a melonry. Th^ 

 trees> both for hedges and ftandards, 

 which I would advife, are either of yew, 

 which is very thicjc as well as durable, 

 or of elm, which may juftly be account- 

 ed the moft hofpitable. friendly plant 

 that grows j and on this much depends 

 for the prevention of thofe violent gufts 

 of wind that blow in fuch a violent 

 and pernicious manner (efpecially in rhJ 

 fpring) as to difap point the tender eft of 

 our hopes and wifhes. Surf 



