How to manage a Garden 



soil, so that they are not loosened by digging near them. 

 We next come to consider tiles, and it is very easy to 

 make a mistake in these, for what may be a handsome 

 pattern viewed in a shop and likewise inexpensive, may 

 prove a very bad investment after a hard frost, when they 

 will be seen to have broken up under the strain. Glazed 

 tiles though dearer are not so subject to this defect. 

 Rough cobble stones are not to be recommended as 

 edging to a vegetable plot, for they are so easily displaced 

 and do not serve the real purpose of an edging, viz., in 

 keeping the soil away from the path. An edging which 

 for neatness and appearance I can recommend beyond 

 all others is to lay down a verge of turfs one foot wide. 

 By simply running the machine over and clipping it 

 occasionally it can be made to look a model of neatness. 

 A piece of board should be used when running a wheel- 

 barrow on to the plot. 



The Position of Trees. 



In a vegetable garden it is strongly urged that fruit- 

 trees be planted where they will not interfere with the 

 orderly cropping of the ground. The introduction of a 

 few trees into even the smallest gardens is greatly to be 

 desired, and I would certainly advise every cottager who 

 has any more than a rod of land to make a point of 

 having at least one fruit-tree. In the garden extending 

 to an acre enclosed within walls the fruit-trees should be 

 disposed as shown in Fig. 6. On the walls they would be 

 planted about twelve feet apart with red or white currants 

 trained to the pillars. Six feet from the main walk and 

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