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frife * at top, to prevent people's getting over : it will alfo 

 ftrengthen the paling. 



By making flips on the outfide of the garden wall, you will 

 have plenty of ground for Goofeberries, Currants, Straw- 

 berries, &c. You may allot that part of the flips which lies 

 neareft to the (tables (if well fheltered, and expofed to the 

 fun,) for Melon and Cucumber beds ; and you can plant both 

 fides of the garden-wall, which will give a great addition to 

 the quantity of wall fruit. 



If the foil of the new garden be ftrong, it fhould be plowed 

 or dug three or four times before you plant any thing in it ; 

 and if it be thrown up in ridges during the Winter, it will be 

 of great fervice, as the froft will meliorate and loofen its 

 parts. 



Gardens, if pofiible, fliould lie near a river, or brook, that 

 they may be well fupplied with water. From thefe, if the 

 garden does not lie too high, the water may be conducted to 

 it by drains, or, which is much better, by pipes, taking care to 

 lay them low enough to receive the water in the drieft feafon, 

 which is the time when it will be moft wanted. 



If there be no running water near the garden, and if the 

 latter lies on a declivity near a public road, I would advife 



* Avery good cheval-de-frife maybe conftru&ed as follows : take a piece of wood of a 

 convenient length, about four inches broad, and one inch and a quarter thick, and plane 

 the upper edge into the ihape of the roof of a houfe of a low pitch ; then draw a line on 

 each fide from end to end, about an inch and a quarter below the upper edge, and through 

 thefe lines drive twelve-penny nails about four inches diftant from each other, fo as to 

 come out near the upper edge on the oppolite fide. Each nail fhould be oppoflte the 

 middle of the fpace between two nails on the other fide. The nail heads mould be funk 

 in the wood, and fmall {trips nailed over them : then drive in tenter-hooks between the 

 nail points, and nail the whole firmly on the outfide of the top of the paling. In this 

 manner proceed till you have finifhed the whole of the fence. 



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