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habits, and by the kindness of friends I obtained many hundreds 

 of specimens of Pears, Apples, and other fruits; and I must not 

 on this occasion forget to mention with many thanks, the great 

 civility and valuable information received at the Society's Gar- 

 dens at Chiswick, from Mr. Thompson, of the Fruit Depart- 

 ment, who was always ready to identify the articles taken to him, 

 thereby insuring the correctness of the remarks that might be 

 made upon any variety as relating to that variety, and to no other. 

 From specimens thus examined in the collections of the principal 

 fruit-gardens in tlie immediate neighbourhood of London I col- 

 lected information which the late Mr. Loudon published in Gard. 

 Mag. 1837, from which it appeared, that by a particular arrange- 

 ment in the growing of fruit-trees and fruit-shrubs, from one 

 fourth to one half of the ground of the garden might be cleared 

 and made available for other crops : for the walks and thorough- 

 fares of the garden produce only weeds and mud ; and by 

 making these into fruit-borders and walking on a pavement and 

 under a trellis, the clumsy plain crops of the kitchen-garden 

 become so hid and disguised by the more prominent fruit-trel- 

 lises, as quite to alter the character of that department into that 

 of the ornamental. I mention this as a precedent, and am glad 

 to find here and there fruit-arches rising over walks in gardens 

 where never any were before 1837 ; and I would now creep 

 one step further with such encouragement, and show what may 

 be done in the field. The ground-plan. Fig. C, and section, 

 Fig. B, drawn to a scale of 1 inch to 12 feet, will explain my 

 ideas of road-side trees. The tree-guards are made in the wall, 

 thereby acting the parts of buttresses to strengthen it. and as 

 wind-guards to shelter the shrubs, m, in, that are planted against 

 the wall. The dotted lines show an imaginaiy arch twelve feet 

 high, and an imaginary line on each side, beyond which the 

 trees must not pass, as it is intended to grow them over the 

 road, and not over the field. 



There is really no end to the sinful waste of fine healthy open 

 air and good soil that is everywhere to be seen in the culture 

 of land. I am of opinion that the waste in farming is much 

 greater than the waste that I have shown to exist in gardening 

 above referred to, and that therefore there is the means of groov- 

 ing fruit unemployed to the extent of one-fourth of the land of 

 the whole kingdom ; for example, the hundreds of miles of rail- 

 ways require only as much of the earth and air generally as the 

 plan and section of one of their tunnels, and if the trellising of 

 a railway were considered extravagant, surely the beautiful slopes 

 could produce berries of many kinds : witness some already 

 notched and planted with strawberries. The dusty turnpike- 

 roads, the country roads, and the farm-roads and lanes, the idle 



