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to make a hollow drain, or a cut, from the mod convenient 

 part of the road to receive the water that w a flies the road in 

 rainy weather, and convey it to a large cittern, or tank, in 

 the upper part of the garden ; this, if the road be mended 

 with lime-ftone or chalk, will prove an excellent manure. 

 The water from the ciftern, or from the river, may be con- 

 ducted to the different quarters by means of pipes, which 

 having cocks at proper places, the water may be turned upon 

 the different quarters of the garden at pleafure. Or the 

 water may be conveyed in proper channels, and turned on 

 the quarters in the fame manner as in watering meadows. 



Thefe pipes, channels, &c. will be a confiderable expence 

 at firft ; but they will foon repay it by faving a great deal of 

 time, which would other wife be fpent in pumping and 

 carrying water. The mod convenient time for turning the 

 water on, is, in general, during the night ; and in dry 

 weather it would then be of the moft effential fervice. 



If the fituation be fuch that you are obliged to pump the 

 water from deep wells, there fhould be a large refervoir, in 

 which it mould be expofed to the fun and air for fome days 

 before it is ufed : it may then be turned on as above. 



If the ground be wet and fpewy, it will be proper to make 

 a bafm in the moft convenient place, rxrTeceive the water that 

 comes from the drains, and to collect the rain that falls on 

 the walks. 



In laying out the quarters, you muft be guided in great 

 meafure by the form and fize of the garden ; but do not lay 

 them out too fmall, as in that cafe a great part of the ground 

 will be taken up with walks. The beft figure is a fquare or 

 oblong, when the garden is of that form ; but if not, they 



may 



