202 PERMANENT PLANTATIONS. 



will depend upon the proportion of the ground intended 

 to be allotted to fruit ; and this again will be regulated by 

 the means, taste, and demands of the family. 



The frontispiece of this work gives the plan of a mixed 

 fruit and kitchen garden, one hundred and fifty feet wide 

 by two hundred long, being one hundred and ten square 

 rods ; somewhat less than three-quarters of an acre. The 

 design is to have two tree borders exclusive of the outside 

 or fence border. The center main walk, from A. to (7, is 

 ten feet wide. That crossing it in the center, six feet 

 wide. The small walk, next the fence border, four feet 

 wide, and that between the two tree borders, five feet. 

 The fence border is six feet wide, and may be planted 

 with espalier trees, vines, etc., besides currants, raspber- 

 ries, strawberries, or anything of low growth, not requir- 

 ing the fullest exposure. The tree borders are all eight 

 feet wide, except the dwarf-apple border, which is only 

 six. The outside border is planted on the two sides with 

 low standard or pyramidal peaches, apricots, plums, 

 quinces, etc., at twelve feet apart, and the two ends with 

 pyramids, at eight feet. 



The inside borders are planted with pyramids and 

 dwarfs, the former at eight, and the latter at six feet 

 apart. A, is the entrance ; B, well or cistern ; (7, a space 

 to turn a horse and cart upon. This arrangement gives 

 thirty standard trees, eighty-three pyramids, and forty 

 dwarfs, leaving clear the outside border, over six hundred 

 and sixty feet long, and six wide, and the four interior 

 compartments, each about thirty by sixty feet. In crop- 

 ping the latter with vegetables, they may be divided, as 

 in the design, into narrow beds, three or four feet wide, 

 separated by paths, eighteen inches wide. In gardens of 

 greater extent, it will be well to increase the distance be- 

 tween the trees. 



Walks in the Fruit Garden. The number of these, as 

 has been remarked, should be simply sufficient for con- 



