TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



new flips were laid out in Kenfington-gardens about ten or 

 eleven years ago, and have found it of great fervice. 



Walls of Kitchen-gardens fhould be from ten to fourteen feet 

 high; the foundation fhould be two bricks or two bricks and 

 a half thick ; the offset fhould not be above one courfe higher 

 than the level of the border ; and the wall fhould then fet off a 

 brick and a half thick, If the walls are long, it will be 

 r-neceffary to ftrengthen them with piers from forty to fixty 

 feet apart ; and thefe piers fhould not project: above half a 

 brick beyond the wall. I do not approve of fixed copings, 

 efpecially when they project fo far as they are generally 

 made to do ; I would rather advife to have a moveable 

 wooden coping, fixed on with iron hooks fattened to pieces 

 of wood built into the top of the wall : thefe copings would 

 alfo be found very convenient to faften the nettings, &c. to 

 in Spring, for fheltering the fruit-trees. If, however, any 

 fhould prefer fixed copings, they fhould not project above 

 an inch on each fide of the wall ; this fmall projection will 

 be fufncient to preferve the wall, and will not prevent the 

 dew and rain from falling on the upper parts of the trees, 

 which is of great fervice to them. Some copings are made 

 of bricks convex on the upper fide : but I have lately feen 

 a very good coping at Afhted-Park, near Epfom : it is made 

 of a fort of Welch flate, to be had, of different fizes, at 

 Mr. Samuel Wyatt's (late-yard, Chriftchurch, near Black- 

 friar's Bridge. This is made to projeft about one inch, 

 and anfwers exceedingly well. Flat copings fhould have 

 a little flope towards the North or Eaft, according to the 

 afpea of the wall ; this will carry the wet from the South 

 and Weft fides, which otherwife would be apt to injure the 



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