Formation of a Garden. 43 



A large garden should have a walk through the center, ex- 

 tending the whole length, with a turning place at the extremity, 

 and broad enough to admit a cart for bringing in the manure 

 and conveying the heavier crops to the cellar or other place 

 of storage. This walk may be crossed by another at right 

 angles, and both should be bordered with currant or gooseberry 

 bushes, or other shrubs. In small gardens these walks may be 

 narrow and without borders, or may be omitted altogether. 

 A border from four to twelve feet wide, and skirted by a walk 

 three or four feet wide, should run entirely around the garden. 

 The smaller compartments need not be separated by permanent 

 walks, and their arrangement must be left to be decided by the 

 circumstances of each case. 



The only general direction that seems necessary in reference 

 to laying out the fruit department is, that care should be taken 

 to give the less hardy trees the most sheltered and warmest 

 position, and to so dispose the various kinds that the larger 

 trees shall not shade and dwarf the smaller. The fruit-garden 

 should have its wall-borders for the cultivation of raspberries, 

 blackberries, currants, gooseberries, etc. (unless these, as is 

 generally the case in small gardens, are transferred to the bor- 

 ders of the kitchen department), and its trellises and arbors 

 for grapevines. 



IV.— FENCING. 



A garden should be surrounded by a close fence, at least seven 

 feet high, and picketed, to prevent the entrance of thieves. 

 The height and closeness of the fence will increase the warmth 

 of the air, break the force of high winds, which might injure 

 tender plants and trees, and prevent, in a measure, the seeds 

 of weeds from being driven into it by the wind. A close board 

 fence, however, is an unsightly object, and a high close hedge, 

 so soon as it can be grown, may advantageously take its place. 

 The Osage Orange and, at the South, the Cherokee and single- 

 white Macartney roses are suitable for this purpose. 



