THE 



GARDENER 



JULY 1873. 



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SITES AND ASPECTS OF GARDENS. 



[ONSIDEEING that the success of garden culture so very 

 much depends on soil and position, the choice of a site 

 on which to make a garden is of the very first import- 

 ance. The quality and supply of fruits and vegetables, 

 as well as the amount of satisfaction and pleasure derivable from 

 all that is connected with a garden, continue in most cases to be 

 either injuriously or favourably affected for generations by the want 

 or the application of forethought in connection with the recognition 

 of natural laws in coming to a decision as to where, on any given 

 domain or property, the garden should be placed. Yet it is a 

 notorious fact that some of the greatest and most prominent garden 

 establishments in the kingdom have been constructed on the very 

 worst sites that could possibly be selected on the estates to which they 

 belong. Indeed, so much is this the case, that had those who made 

 choice of such sites been ruled by something like — shall we say — the 

 perverse idea of providing the gardener with the worst soils and cli- 

 mate that a locality can offer, and therefore of necessity with as many 

 natural difficulties to combat as possible, they could not have been 

 more successful. To illustrate the force of this statement, it is only 

 necessary to instance a few places, where it might have been expected 

 that a thorough knowledge and recognition of how very much depends 

 on whether one of two sites not many hundred yards apart should be 

 chosen, and where, notwithstanding, the greatest possible blunders have 

 been glaringly committed. Look, for instance, at Chats worth kitchen- 



