Formation of a Vegetable Garden 



on both sides would be trained espaliers. Three feet from 

 the inner portion of the other walks would be planted pyra- 

 mids at a distance of six or eight feet apart. Whilst young 

 the space between these would be occupied by gooseberry 

 trees, and a row of strawberries would be grown where 

 the closely dotted lines appear. Fig. 7 gives an erroneous 

 method of cropping and is intended to display the error 



FIG. 6. 



Right arrangement. 

 A Plots. B Borders. 



Fruit. 



FIG. 7. 

 Wrong arrangement. 



of cutting up the ground into small patches, and by the 

 very fact of not being able to dig deeply against fruit-trees, 

 wasting a large portion. The space between the lines of 

 larger dots is meant to figure the alleys that are necessary 

 to work the ground. These should be dug up at least 

 every other year, and in the case of those against the wall 

 every time the border is dug. 

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