How to manage a Garden 



different fruits, and yet each have all the conditions 

 necessary for complete success. It would be tedious 

 and unnecessary to go through the plan, for the references 

 will clearly show what is meant. It might be added 

 that, apart from the money profit which would in most 

 cases follow an extension of fruit culture, we have the 

 opinion of eminent doctors that ripe fruit is highly 

 nutritious, and is far more wholesome than many of 

 the patent foods so freely advertised, and as we venture 

 to suppose so freely bought. Then, again, there 'is the 

 possibility of making jam, which in the case of a growing 

 family cannot fail to be beneficial to the children, and 

 a great saving to the parents. It is greatly feared that 

 many of the jams at present on the market have not 

 those wholesome and nutritive qualities which should ac- 

 company whatever is formed from fruit. In view of this 

 the making of jam, by cottagers and others, should by all 

 means be encouraged. 



Distances to Plant. 



Although it is not intended to go into the question 

 of planting, which will be fully dealt with in a succeeding 

 chapter, it will be well to point out that overcrowding 

 is an economic evil. At the same time economy of the 

 true type demands that there should be no waste of room. 

 To strike the happy medium is not difficult. 



It often happens that trees are planted thickly at first, with 



the laudable intention of thinning out later on, but in 



many instances this is neglected, much to the detriment 



of the trees, and, if he could but recognise it, to the dis- 



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