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may contain fossils, with rock plants growing amongst th 



e 



stones, an 



falling 



festoons over them 



describes a bed for strawberries 



Near 



The Vignette only 



e end of the bed 



a 



hint is given for training gooseberries, currants, &c. to a certain 

 height, to bear their fruit out of the reach of children 

 more convenient height for full grown persons. 



and at 



th 



dens of Holland, wh 



such fruits 



gar 



raised in great perfec 



tion, every bush, as well as every espalier, is trained by hoop 



to assume the form of cups or basins, to admit the sun and 



into the interior, and 



ripen the fruit. Such attention 



great neatness to a Garden, which 

 and artificial. 



give 



ght always to appear trim 



The mass of mankind may be so indifferent to the produc- 

 - of a Garden, that they hardly deserve to enjoy its choicest 



uxunes. 



There are many who would not know the difference 

 betw,xt a peaeh gathered and one that had fallen from the tree • 



e bed 



or those 



or betwixt the strawberries plucked from th 



brought from . .fruit shop, and perhaps gathered with un 



washed hands the day before. 



Of a]l the places which I have ever seen, where perfect atten 



tion was g hen to the fruit T „, , F«nect atten- 



b to the tru,t, I was most struck with Woollaton. 



the time of the late Lord Middleton 



nf ^ Jl^_ r . the Stalk and Iea ves; and the bloon 



of the plums 



fingers, 

 baskets 



d other fruit 



cut 



by being 

 n which the 



was preserved from th 



om the trees 



e touch o 





nes 



d currants 



were brought to tabl 

 well as the grapes, 



and dropped into th 



e 



e. 



Th 



e gooseber 



were so trained 



to 



