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want vigour ; but has not yet had sufficient experience of its effects, to 
give a list of plants to which it ought to be applied. 
In order to produce as much manure as possible, as well for the farm as 
for the garden, all leaves, haulm, and waste vegetable matters, are care- 
fully collected, and fermented by the addition of fresh stable dung ; and 
heaps of different kinds of soils, procured from different parts of the coun- 
try, are constantly kept in the slip adjoining the frame-ground, ready for 
use. 
The grounds being nearly level are readily supplied with water from 
the ponds and from the brook ; and there are concealed wells, communica- 
ting with these sources by pipes from the brook, in different parts of the 
grounds, and more especially in the kitchen-garden, from which the plants 
can be abundantly watered in the growing season with comparatively 
little labour ; there being six different places, including the ponds and 
brook, from which the gardeners take water, and all the strawberries are 
planted close to the wells in the inner and outer walled gardens. 
The kitchen-gardens, the hot-houses, and the store-houses and some 
other structures can be locked up at pleasure, Mr. Harrison and Mr. Pratt 
being the only persons having complete master keys. Part of the outer 
kitchen-garden is enclosed with an open iron spike fence, 5 ft. 6 in. high, 
within which and the inner walled garden are the strawberries and 
choicest gooseberries, figs, etc., and these enclosures are opened only by 
the master keys. The whole, therefore, of the wall and best fruit is 
secured from plunder. 
The beauties of this place, as has been already mentioned, depend 
chiefly on the taste and judgment displayed in laying out the walks, and 
distributing the trees and shrubs ; though the choice of a situation for 
the pond, and the mount adjoining it, is also a matter of some consequence. 
The trees and shrubs, being comparatively limited in number, consist 
of one of almost every kind that is to be procured in British nurseries, 
exclusive of those which are common, or not considered ornamental. In 
selecting these, the more rare kinds have been procured, and planted quite 
young; Mr. Harrison and Mr. Pratt having found, by experience, that 
the pines and firs should be planted out when not more than of three or 
four years’ growth. When the plants have been in pots, the balls should 
be gently broken with the hand, and afterwards all the earth washed away 
from the roots by the application of water. The plant may then be placed 
