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the wall, no water from excessive rains may settle in pools. This not only 

 prevents the roots from penetrating into the cold clay, but keeps them in a 

 warmer and more congenial element, whilst the trees are in every respect 

 healthier, and produce better flavoured fruit. If this plan be considered too 

 expensive, the next best method is to flag, or stone, below the subsoil in the 

 above manner, five or six feet square, and then to plant the tree in a proper 

 depth of soil, from eighteen inches or more. This will give a turn to the 

 roots, and make tliem less hable to enter the clay, which is very prejudicial 

 to them. Quicksandy bottoms require the same treatment. 



It is necessary to guard against planting fruit trees too numerously 

 in other pails of the Vegetable Garden. They should be limited to such 

 a number as will admit of a free circulation of air. A suitable place, not 

 far distant from the kitchen garden, should be selected for an orchard, to 

 supply the deficiency in the garden, paving the bottom as above. I think 

 (though it is not a matter of paramount importance) that gardens should be 

 kept clear of any arrangement calculated to produce an untidy appearance, — 

 such as forcing-pits; and that sea-kale and rhubarb, which require forcing 

 with manure or litter, should be found in places entirely set apart for that 

 purpose. The principal forcing houses should, of course, be in the principal 

 garden. 



