How to manage a Garden 



This gives large opportunities in the way of cultivating 

 wall trees of the more delicious species of fruit, such as 

 peaches, nectarines, and apricots ; or if the taste does not 

 incline towards these, pears and apples may be brought 

 thereon to earlier maturity, not to mention the increased 

 amount of south border, which means earlier vegetables, 

 When the outline of the garden is not already made, it 

 should certainly be made rectangular, that is, of an oblong 

 or square shape. Rarely, but very rarely, we find a round 

 kitchen garden ; but no person having the crudest notion 

 of the arrangement of the crops within would think now of 

 planning in that form. 



The Edging of the Paths. 



There must be in a well-regulated garden some manner 

 of frontier-line dividing the path from the plot. Usually 

 this may be made a matter of choice, ungoverned by any 

 other factor. The first process is to choose between a live 

 or a dead edging; that is, whether some edging plants 

 such as box be used, or whether boards, tiles, stones, &c., 

 be preferred. Among the former, common box is prefer- 

 able to all others, because it effectually keeps up the 

 separation between path and plot, and also because it 

 can easily be kept within bounds, is neat in appearance, 

 and succeeds well in the position. Two objections are 

 commonly urged against it, viz., that it harbours slugs 

 and insects, and that weed-killer cannot be applied to the 

 walks withoutal so killing it. These views are, however, 

 untenable. In the first case, only a system of neglect will 

 allow box to grow so dense as to make the harbouring of 

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