THE GARDEN WEEK BY WEEK 



Jan. maker (who has by this time got his muscles both strong 

 ^^3^ and phant) may make assurance doubly sure by spending 

 an hour or two on the lawn with the garden roller. 



Fruit. 



Although, as mentioned in the first section of the 

 present chapter, January is often not a good month for 

 planting fruit trees, there is no reason why plans and 

 preparations should not be made for making new fruit 

 gardens, or for arranging the fruit portion of a kitchen 

 garden. 



Trained Trees. — For example, it may be proposed 

 to plant fan, cordon, or espalier trees alongside the paths 

 in a part of the vegetable garden. How are they to be 

 supported ? Bush trees will support themselves, stan- 

 dards only require a stake, but fiat trees must have a 

 wall, a fence, or some sort of framework on which to 

 lean. It may be agreed to provide an erection of poles 

 and wire. Good ; and in this case why not erect it in 

 this, the quiet season, when labour is more readily 

 available than in spring? Not only would I do this, 

 but I would have the ground got ready directly the 

 framework was complete, so that when March came 

 there would be nothing to do but to put in the trees. 



It may be urged that self-supporting bush trees are 

 better than flat ones — that they will probably give more 

 fruit, and are more economical to manage. They are 

 certainly more cheaply "run," but taking the cordon 

 as the typical trained flat tree, it has one great advantage 

 over the bush tree for small gardens in that it takes up 

 so much less room. 



I think that every country garden, however small, 

 should have its " Cabbage patch," only, instead of giving 

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