ii 6 "The Englijh Gardner. 
part of your work that might yield delight, neither that you 
make your work lb fpacious, but that you may have it plea- 
fa ntly in your eye at.a view: let not your Walks be too little, 
neither too big, like a fmall City with over-large Gates. And 
now I will proceed to fome eafie and plain dire&ions, very 
uleful for a Learner, how to level and bring a Garden into 
fome order and form. In the fir ft place, you are to provide, 
fo as to make your borders good either with dung or good 
earth, or both, that fo your Trees or Flowers, or both may 
thrive the better, and your Fruit be the fairer 5 but as for 
that part of your Ground where your Walks are to be, 
it matters not how Barren, Chalky, Gravelly or Stony they 
be, fo that you be carefui to pick out all forts of Weeds that 
are not eafily cleanfed or deftroyed by ordinary hand weed¬ 
ing, as Twich, Nettle, Dandelion, &c. otherwife they may 
prove a perpetual Trouble to you, befidethe charge of often 
weeding j fo likewife if you make Grafs-plots, it matters not 
how barren or poor the ground is, fo it be not either very 
ftony or barren Gravel, which ufually ftarves any thing that 
grows on it, if the weather be but a little dry 5 but ufually 
graft grows fafter in Gardens,than molt Gardners would have 
it 5 but if you intend your Plats for Flowers or Herbs, let your 
ground be good and well cleanfed , but if for Flowers chief 
ly, then a fupply of Earth from your Kitchin-Garden is beft, 
and fupply your Kitchin-garden with dung, your herbage 
will be the better. 
1 Now [for the manner of going about to put your Garden 
into form,it is as followeth. Firft you are to provide a quan¬ 
tity of handfom (freight (fakes about four or five foot long, 
being (harpned at one end,and then about two foot and a half 
from the Wall or Fence,where the Border is to be made,range 
a line, and then by your line pitch down a couple of (fakes 
of fuch a length as your level will well reach to level the tops 
of them exaftly $ let them (land faft in the ground, and then 
in the fame (freight range'drive down another (fake about 
a pole or two from your firft, the which by your eye you may 
level 
