Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1716 edition. Excerpt: ...Advantage to it. Sandy-Lands are of several sorts, as I have (hewed alread y; but Land that hath a competent Mixture of Sand in it is the warmest and lightest, and according to its fatness is the best to produce Vegetables. Sandy and gravelly Grounds need a more constant supply of Manure than other Lands, as 1 said before; but they yield a good increase in moist Summers, or where they may be weH manured with DQ"g, Cow-dung, Sheeps-dung, and Hogs-dungare the best. Where you have any Trees, Plants or Flowers that delight in a different Soil, from what your Garden composed pi, your belt way is in such places to make make a Mixture of some such sort of Soil with the natural Earth, as your Plants delight id. '7' Chap. V. Of the Form ofGtrdtns. AS to the Form I reckon that the best, that wilj allow of the most Uniformity and Regularity, and bring to view at once the greatest Variety the place will afford, which I think the Square, or rather the long square Figure will do the best f because in that Form your Walks will be straight, and your Trees and Plants stand every Way in a direct Line. But where you are already limited, by reason of the Situation of your House, and other Boundaries, things mast be formed and modelled according to such Limitations as are prescribed to you. You should also observe to have one principal Walk in the Middle of your Garden, which is to lead from one of the Principal or most frequented Rooms of your House, and if possible you should cause it to terminate in the best Prospect your Situation will afford; and because of its affording of a Prospect do opt make it too narrow, which is the fault of most Walks that I have seen; for the broader they are the more noble (especially where they have a length that will...
