402 SELECTION OF FRUIT TREES ADAPTED FOR AN ORCHARD. 



Currants, Red. 



Red Dutch. 



Champagne. 



Cherry. 



Jackson's Mammoth. 



Raby Castle, or Victoria. 



Knight's Early Red. 



Knight's Sweet Red. 



Currants, White. 



White Dutch. 

 Cut-leaved variety 

 Dutch. 



of White 



Currants, Black. 

 Naples. 

 Grape. 

 Carter's Prolific. 



Raspberries. 



Early Prolific. 

 Red Antwerp. 

 Yellow Antwerp. 

 Double Bearing, or Rivers's Vic- 

 toria. 

 Fastolf. 

 October Red. 

 October Yellow. 

 Barnet. 



Plants of gooseberries and currants may be procured from the nur- 

 series, of one, two, or three years' growth ; care should be taken not to 

 plant them too deep ; if against espaliers, they are trained in the per- 

 pendicular manner ; but if in compartments or long walks, as dwarfs, 

 they are best left to take their natural shapes ; thinning out the 

 branches so as to give free access of light and air to the interior of the 

 bush. Raspberries being suffruticose plants, the wood formed in one 

 year dying down the next, can only be procured of one year s growth, 

 and they require little pruning except that of shortening the shoots. 



Selection of Fruit Trees adapted for an Orchard. 



Few kitchen-gardens can produce a sufficient supply of apples, pears, 

 and nuts within the walls, and therefore it commonly happens that a 

 plantation or orchard is formed either in the slip, or in some spot ad- 

 joining the kitchen-garden. This plantation should always be sepa- 

 rated from the culinary departments by some appropriate line of de- 

 marcation. This may frequently be a dwarf wall, on which, if the 

 aspect is suitable, young fruit trees may be trained for the purpose of 

 removal, to fill up occasional blanks in the principal walls. In the 

 plan, fig. 331, the semicircular plot at the south end of the garden 

 might be separated from the walled garden by a dwarf wall, at the 

 same distance from the main wall as the side fences are distant from 

 the main side walls, and the space so walled-oif would form a very con- 

 venient area for the orchard ; provided it were suitable in all other 

 respects. Sometimes the trees are distributed in groups over a lawn 

 or paddock, so as to constitute the main part of the woody scenery of a 

 small villa. They are also occasionally mixed in with ornamental 

 trees and shrubs ; a most incongruous assemblage in our opinion, and 

 one which can never form an efficient substitute for an orchard. In 

 whatever situation standard fruit trees are planted, the subsoil should 

 be rendered dry, and the surface if very poor put into good heart by 



