The Scots Gardner Together With the Gardners Kalendar
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VII. As to terrase-walkes, if the brow on which you make them be not too steep, the work will be the more facile : if you build them up with walls, be careful to sound deep enough according to the level; and if the middle of the terrase be on the central line of the house, or of any walke, make the stayr of the upmost and downmost there to part at a plat on the head, going down at both sides ; so much of the stayr-case maybe within, as that the outer-edge thereof may be in a line with the bordu...re at the wall ; by this it marrs not the walke ; the rest may be at the ends : plant the borders at the upper-side of the walke with wall- trees, the under- side (being but an ell high) with laurels, &c. But if your ter- rase consists only of walkes and sloping-banks, you may have the bordure at the head and foot of each bank, on either side the walkes, planted with stan- dard-cherries, &c. , and the banks of violets, straw- berries, or grass. As for pondes, make them large and broad, such being best both for the health of fish and f owll ; squair, triangle, circle, oval, or what figure fits your 44 TREATING OF CONTRIVANCE ground best ; let them be five or six foot of solid water at least, with sluces to let it run in and out at pleasure ; keep them clean; for such water is the more preferable for watering plants.
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