To render my directions more clear as well as more brief, I have given a plan of my proposed garden.



This is not, strictly speaking, a plan; because it exhibits trees in elevation; but it will answer the purpose.

Of the sorts of which these trees are, and of other circumstances belonging to them, I shall speak fully under the head of Fruits. The precise description of the Hot-beds will be found under that head.

At present my object is to explain the mode of Laying out the Ground.

The length of the Garden is 100 yards, the breadth 50 yards, and the area contains a statute acre; that is, 160 Rods of 16L feet to the Rod. In order to bring my length and breadth within round numbers, I have been obliged to add 6 rod and 58 square feet; but, with this trifling addition here is a spot containing an acre of land.

Before, however, I proceed further, let me give my reasons for choosing an Oblong Square, instead of a Square of equal sides. It will be seen, that the length of my garden is from East to West. By leaving a greater length in this direction than from North to South, three important advantages are secured.

First, we get a long and warm border under the Northfence for the rearing of things early in the spring. Second, we get a long and cool border under the South fence for shading, during the great heats, things, to which a burning sun is injurious. Fourth, by this shape of the area of the Garden a larger portion of the whole is sheltered, during winter and spring, from the bleak winds.

Having such a spot before us, little difficulty can arise in Laying it out, Indeed, it is only necessary to state the dimensions. The several parts are distinguished by numbers.

The long walk, running from East to West, is 6 feet wide, as is also the cross walk, in the middle. All the paths are 3 feet wide. The borders, Nos. 2 and 3, are 9 feet wide. The dimensions of the Plats Nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, are (each) 70 feet from East to West and 56 from North to South. Plat, No. 6, is 56 feet by 50. Plat, No. 4, is 60 feet by 36. The Hot-bed Ground, No. 1, is 70 feet by 36.

I leave trifling fractions unnoticed. In the English gardening books, they call those parts of the garden "1Quarters," which I call Plats; but, for what reason they so call them it would be difficult to conjecture. I call them plats, which is the proper word, and a word, too, universally understood.