56 AROUND THE YEAR IN THE GARDEN 



tically everything in the fruit line can be preserved to ad- 

 vantage. 



Unlike the vegetable garden the fruit garden need not 

 have a space of considerable size devoted exclusively to it. 

 The trees may be put round the edges of the place, and a 

 dozen or so cane fruits may be placed along a wall or 

 in a corner. Most of the fruits on a very small place 

 may be made to fit in with the general decorative scheme; 

 many of them in bloom are fully as beautiful as flowering 

 shrubs. 



A variety of material is available for the fruit garden. 

 Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, logan- 

 berries, currants, gooseberries and grapes make up what are 

 usually known as the small fruits. Apples, plums, peaches, 

 cherries and pears may be had either in the regular standard 

 types or, if space is limited, on dwarf stocks which, with 

 proper care, give miniature-sized trees with full-sized fruit. 

 Of most of these things you will want two or more varieties 

 to assure a succession, but the number of each required, 

 even for a fair-sized garden, will be very small. 



Plant the Fruits by Proxy 



The ideal way not to plan the fruit garden k the way it is 

 frequently done. The gardener, having decided that he 

 really must have some fruits in his garden, does nothing 

 more about it until the nursery agent gets round and per- 

 suades him that he needs a quarter of a dozen, half a dozen, 

 or a couple of dozen of this, that and the other thing which 

 will be shipped in plenty of time for planting. Some agents 

 have first-class stock for sale. But there is a much better 

 way of planning your fruit garden. 



Take a number of labels, short stakes, or pieces of shingle 

 and figure out carefully what you want to have, so far as 

 the room at your disposal will allow. The bed for straw- 

 berries or cane fruits may be staked off. The bush fruits 

 and fruit trees may be indicated by stakes, each with a 

 name written on it. After you have thus planted your 



