How to manage a Garden 



is so rash as to doubt this may experiment for himself. 

 Whenever possible, except as before mentioned in the 

 case of having a hedge for a boundary, there should be 

 a border under the wall. In some cases this is only four 

 feet, whilst in large gardens I have known it to be thirty 

 feet wide. A very useful width, however, is ten feet. By 

 having a border in this way, we not only afford root room 

 for the fruit trees trained to the walls, but also get pro- 

 tection for early vegetables; for it is on borders of this 



FIG. 2. 

 Bad arrangement. 



A Plots. B Path. 

 C Tools. D Border. 



Paths. 



FIG. 3. 

 Right arrangement. 



A Plots. B Path. C Borders. 

 D Water. E Tools. F Walls. 



class that the best vegetables and the earliest can be more 

 easily produced. Having arranged for a border of the said 

 dimensions along each of the four walls, a path four feet 

 wide is marked out. Then commences the subdivision of 

 the patches remaining. More information will be procured 

 by glancing at the arrangements shown in the accompany- 

 ing illustrations, Figs. 2 and 3, than could with sufficient 

 clearness be conveyed in words. I would recommend a 

 careful study of these, and some examples of mistakes 

 which are likely to be committed will be gleaned from a 

 comparison of the right and the wrong methods of arrange- 

 3 



