MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 221 



may be laid out in any other figure that is thought to be mod 

 convenient. 



The middle walks fhould be about feven feet, which is 

 wide enough to admit a cart ; and the others, about three or 

 four feet broad ; with a border on each fide,,- five or fix feet 

 wide, at lead, between the walk and the fruit-trees. Walks 

 in kitchen-gardens are generally gravelled, and but feldom 

 laid with turf, as the frequent wheeling and treading foon 

 deftroys the grafs and renders them very unfightly : but a 

 binding fand makes good walks and they are cafily kept ; for 

 when mofs or weeds begin to grow, they may be cleaned with 

 a horfe-hoe, or fcuffeled over with a Dutch-hoe, in dry weather, 

 and raked a day or two after, by which' they will be made 

 always to look neat and clean. I, however, give the preference 

 to fea-coal allies, which in my opinion make the beft walks 

 for a kitchen- garden, and they are eafier kept than any other, 

 being firm and dry, and cleaner to walk on than fand, efpe- 

 cially after froft. 



The bottoms of, the walks mould be filled up with brick 

 rubbifh, chippings of (tones, or gravel and ftones ; thofe 

 raked off the quarters will do very well, and by ufmg them 

 you will fave carriage. 



If the foil be ftifF and wet, or fubject to detain the moiflure, 

 there muff, be under-ground drains made to carry off the 

 water. In this cafe, let the main drain be made under the 

 walk, to receive and carry off the water from thofe under the 

 quarters. Draining, when the foil is wet, is abfolutely 

 neceffary, otherwife the trees will never produce good well- 

 flavoured fruit, and your kitchen plants will be much injured : 

 the drains alfo under the walks will keep them dry and firm, 

 and make them fit for carting and wheeling on in wet weather. 



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