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ON THE MANAGEMENT 
the whole will run at the medium depth of one yard : And as 
the breadth of the floor, eighteen feet, and the Vines {landing 
at three feet fix inches apart, the diftance between the raf- 
ters, each plant will occupy, at an average, a fpace containing 
feven fuperficial yards, and, confequently, as many cubic 
yards of compofl. 
Having thus gone through with the preparation of the ground 
where the foil and fituation are both unfavourable, I fhall now 
endeavour to give a few hints that may be ufeful, when either 
of thefe articles are differently and better circumftanced. 
A garden, and confequently the Hot-houfe, is fometimes fo 
happily fituated in regard to foil, that it feems, by nature, 
adapted to the growth of the Vine/ The befl: foil, in my ap- 
prehenfion. 
^ The following extraft from Virgil, on this topic, will be deemed neither imap- 
plicable nor difagreeable to the candid reader : 
The nature of their fev’ral foils now fee. 
Their ftrength, their colour, their fertility; 
And firft for heath, and barren hilly ground, 
Where meagre clay and flinty fiiones abound ; 
Where the poor foil all fuccour feems to want, 
Y et this fuffices the Palladian plant. 
Undoubted figns of fuch a foil are found. 
For here wild olive-fhoots o’erfpread the ground, 
And heaps of berries ilrew the fields around, 
But 
