300 GARDEN MANAGEMENT. 



painting, &c. Pots and plants are expensive, but they vary in diflcrent dis- 

 tricts ; so the mention of mine will not benefit any one else. The cost of my 

 house then stands thus : — 



Wood, sawing, nails, &c £4 14 



Glass, with putty and paint 6 



Carpenter's labour 2 17 



13 11 



My house is 30 feet long by 12 feet wide, inside measure ; 9 feet high at back ; 

 3 feet 3 inches in front, weather-boarded. The back is tarred ; front, sides, 

 and roof, painted with anti-corrosive paint ; the inside walls are whitewashed 

 with lime. This rather washes off with hard sj-ringing. I am doubtful 

 whether next season I shall renew it, mixing some flour of sulphur with the 

 lime to keep oflf the red spider, or whether I shall paint it. The path was dug 

 out to about a foot depth below the door-sill, but nearly filled up again with 

 dry stones, which were well gas-tarred, and then covered with clean gravel. 

 The borders on each side are raised and boarded, — the front, one foot ; the 

 back, 1 foot 6 inches. This I think adds very much to appearance and 

 convenience, the trees coming close up to your hand for the numerous 

 manipulations required, and being seen very much better ; they are also nearer 

 the glass, and no shade is thrown from the front border plants on those of the 

 back border. I have four sliding shutters at the back, a board to let down the 

 whole distance in front, also a small ventilator in the boarded side opposite the 

 door. I\Iy plants in 16-inch and 11-inch pots stand diamond-wise on each 

 border, and between the large pots at the back I have planted in the border a 

 few trees for training up the back of the house, which I shall keep in check by 

 lifting and root-pruning. I have a ledge for strawberries about six inches 

 below the front shutter, holding about fifty plants, and another hundred are 

 placed between the large pots on the borders ; they are blooming and setting 

 fruit abundantly." 



827. The returns for a much greater outlay than is here contemplated will 

 be gathered from a communication on the subject by Mr. Morris, gardener to 

 Mr. White, of Wethersfield ]\Ianor-House, Essex. In 1851, an orchard-house, 

 80 feet long by 12 feet wide, was put up, having a faggot back ; and eleven 

 trees were planted in that space as permanent ones. They began to bear in 

 1852, and in 1854 Mr. Eivers saw them just after the gardener^had com- 

 menced gathering fruit. At this time Mr. Pavers considered that there could 

 not be less than 5,000 or 6,000 peaches and nectarines on the trees, besides 

 what had been removed. In 1858, Mr. Morris states that " the trees have 

 produced heavy crops ever since." So much for trees planted in the open 

 border. To this statement, so creditable to Mr. Morris, one of the carpers, 

 who hang on the skirts of all improvements, suggests that such a house to 

 a market-gardener must be a source of great profit, but "for a gentleman 

 to surfeit himself and his friends with fruit for eight or nine days in autumu 



