APPENDIX. 139 
I will now submit a few practical remarks on what 
may be called the Cottage Vegetable Garden, or rather, 
Fruit and Vegetable Garden; for, on a limited plot, 
they ought not to be separated. There is no good 
reason why a man with three or four city lots, each 
25 by 100 feet, should not indulge the luxury of a few 
choice fruits, equally with him who owns his acres. 
In what follows, it is supposed that the lots run 
north and south, the house being built on the north 
front, and the flower-garden separated from the vege- 
table by a rose-trellis the full width of the lots. The 
flower-garden and lawn will occupy another article. 
Let us suppose a man has four lots of ground, two 
of which are taken up with a house, lawn, flower-gar- 
den, &. He will then have a plot 50 by 100 fora 
fruit and vegetable garden. Now it will not do to use 
half of this up with walks—a thing quite too common. 
Beginning at the rose-trellis, lay off a central walk 
four feet wide, through the length of the garden; then, 
immediately behind the rose-trellis, lay off a grape- 
border ten feet wide, and parallel with this a walk 
three feet wide, stopping three feet short of each side- 
fence; then borders three feet wide next the east and 
west fence; then, parallel with these, a walk three feet 
wide; then a central walk four feet wide, through the 
width of the garden, and a walk three feet wide close 
to the south fence. This arrangement will make four 
large central beds, each 40 by 17 feet, besides the bor- 
ders. The beds and borders should be edged with 
box, kept closely cut. The whole garden should be 
trenched two or three feet deep. To make the walks, 
dig out the soil three feet deep; fill in with stones about 
