THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 20I 



have scarcely awakened from their winter 

 sleep. What is more beautiful than a spray 

 of rose-flecked apple blossom arching the 

 path, or, later, the sun-kissed fruit showing 

 its ruddy spheres amidst the darkening foliage? 



And if the flower garden is to invade the 

 vegetable plot, why not the converse? Fruit 

 trees upon the grass plot have just as much 

 value as the che tnut or laburnum, both for 

 flower and shade, and against a north wall 

 they will cover much uninteresting brick and 

 mortar, and yield their crop without detracting 

 from the usefulness of the border for flower- 

 growing. 



Even the boundary hedge between flower 

 and vegetable plot may be made of espaliers, 

 or such easily trained fruit bushes as logan- 

 berry, wine-berry, and blackberry. 



The gardener of resource will find no diffi- 

 culty in putting these hints into practice. 

 There is nothing new in them. The associa- 

 tion of flowers and vegetables in the kitchen 

 garden was common in the walled-in gardens 

 of a century ago; but the practice was not 

 introduced with quite the same objects as 

 those here detailed, because in those days the 



