CHAPTER XIII. 



FURNISHING THE GARDEN. 



381. The new ground having been duly levelled and drained, and tlia 

 foundations laid for the walks, so that only their last coating of fine gravel 

 is required to give the finishing touch, the portion intended for cropping 

 and for flower-beds, as I have already intimated, should either lie fallow for 

 a season, or be sown with some preparatory crop, such as tm'nips or carrots. 

 From this treatment, however, we must except the ''reserve garden," on 

 which the appearance of the flower-beds in the following summer must depend, 

 the ''orchard," and " fiaiit-garden," which take many years before the young 

 trees arrive at a mature state. Perhaps, also, the "kitchen-garden," which 

 may be cropped with such vegetable products as are found to be preparers oi 

 ■the soil. 



§ 1. — The Reserve Garden. 



382. As its name imports, the reserve garden is not meant to be a special 

 •object of beauty in itself, but to provide the means of upholding a continuous 

 display of beauty elsewhere. JMany plants that are totally unfit, from the short 

 duration of their bloom, to enter the flower-garden as pei-manent occupants, 

 may, with perfect safety, be transplanted there for the display oi their floral 

 beauty, and be returned, as they fade, to the reserve garden. Of this class 

 is the whole race of polyanthuses, hepaticas, hardy auriculas, primroses 



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