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strawberries, and raspberries ; and in an angle hidden 

 if he choose by a belt of shrubbery he may have 

 his hotbed and compost heap. Fork-culture, which 

 all these crops demand, will admit of any arrange 

 ment he may prefer, and he may enliven the group- 

 ings, and win the goodwife s favor, by here and 

 there a little circlet of such old-fashioned flowers ae 

 tulips yellow lilies and white, with roses of all shades 



Upon the other half he may make distribution of 

 parts, by banding the various crops with border lines 

 of China or Refugee beans ; and he may split the 

 whole crosswise, by a walk overarched with climb 

 ing Limas, or the London Horticultural setting off 

 the two ends with an abutment of Scarlet-runners, 

 and a surbase of fiery Nasturtium. 



There are also available and pretty devices for 

 making the land do double duty. The border lines 

 of China-beans, which will be ripened in early 

 August, may have Swedes sown in their shadow in 

 the first days of July, so that when the Chinas have 

 fulfilled their mission, there shall be a new line of 

 purple green in their place. The early radishes and 

 salads may have their little circlets of cucumber pits, 

 no way interfering with the first, and covering the 

 ground when the first are done. The early Bassano 

 beets will come away in time to leave space for tho 

 full flow of the melons that have been planted at 



