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did not intei'fere •with the other trees. Ou the east and west walls plant 

 trained trees of plums, cherries, pears, and mulberries, after the same rule, 

 but without the same precaution as to soil, as these are not so particular, 



415. In draining the kitchen-garden, one of the drains ought to run the 

 whole length of the south border ; for where peaches, nectarines, and especially 

 apricots, are to be cultivated, the ground should be thoroughly drained ; 

 beyond this I would recommend no one to proceed in cultivating wall-fruit 

 in the kitchen-garden. Curvatm'es in the wall, projecting piers, leaning walls 

 and fences, covering the whole soil of the border occasionally, and such-liko 

 nostrums, are as well left alone, and the money spent on matters of real 

 utility, such as orchard-houses. 



416. In disposing of the main body of the garden, we have recommended 

 dividing it into four equal compartments, by means of cross-walks three or 

 four feet wide. If it is desii*ed to have fruit-trees, plant a row through the 

 centre of each quarter from north to south. I would not recommend more, 

 for it should be remembered, that the more trees there are the less and poorer 

 will be the crops, both of fruit and vegetables. As regards gooseberrie.^, 

 black, red, and white cmTants, and raspberries, I would strongly urge th'% 

 propriety of planting one of the quarters with these, as arranged in a formei 

 page, in preference to the very common practice of bordering the quarters 

 with them. This is done on a false notion of economy, while, in fact, it is a 

 great waste ; it is also done with the view of being ornamental, — it is, in realitj'^, 

 the contrary ; and it involves the loss of these bushes as renewers and pre- 

 parers of the soil for ordinary kitchen crops in connection with a system of 

 I'otation of crops, which will keep the ground in good heart without any 

 intermission in the produce. It would not be difficult to point out the con- 

 verse of this in some old suburban kitchen-gardens, which do not return tho 

 worth of the seed sown in them ; where the soil is swarming with grubs, 

 maggots, and mildew ; where cabbages club and rot, tap-roots canker, and 

 potatoes produce no tubers ;— and why ? — because the soil has been for many 

 years overtasked, croj^ped highly, and injudiciously manured ; whereas a proper 

 system of rotation- cropping would have kept the ground in good heart. 



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