140 THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



the hope of being abb, in the following pages, to 

 set forth methods of cultivating many ki^.ids oi" fruits, 

 that shall both be satisfactory and instructive, 



SECT. I. 



ON THE CONSTRUCTION OP GARDEN- WALLS, &C. 



1 HE chief reason for rearing walls around a garden, 

 is for the production of fruits. A kitchen-garden, 

 considered merely as such, may be as completely 

 fenced and sheltered by hedges, as by walls ; as in- 

 deed they were, in former times, and examples of 

 that mode of fencing are still to be met with. But 

 in order to obtain the finer fruits, it becomes neces- 

 sary to build walls, and to erect pales and railings ; 

 and the ground thus enclosed is generally occupied 

 in the production of esculents, and of flowers. 

 Plence the fruit-garden is generally combined with 

 the kitchen and the flower-gardens ; and hence a 

 simplicity and neatness in the construction of our 

 walled gardens, unknown to former times. The 

 forcing, or exotic garden is often added to these, 

 and the whole becomes a scene of great interest 

 and resort. 



In designing and laying out a modern garden, 

 then, a degree of taste, as well as of fltness or pro- 

 priety, ought to be displayed ; the basis of which is 

 the right placing, proportioning, and constructing 

 ipf the walls. If these be properly get down, so as 



