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COTTAGE GARDENS. 



this vases for flowers may be placed at 

 intervals. 



Kitchen Garden. Thus, a third of the 

 ground is devoted to the house and a small 

 ornamental flower garden, and the remainder 

 is available as a kitchen garden. The 

 border K may be a vine border, if it is 

 intended to grow grapes in the conservatory, 

 n ; the corresponding border, o, may be 

 sloped as a bank, and appropriated to 

 strawberries. Under the south wall, or 

 wall which faces the south, on which 

 peaches, apricots, nectarines, c, may be 

 grown, is a broad border, P, useful for early 



ately disposed of on the spot. Before it is 

 a rockery and narrow border, u. in the 

 centre is a circular bed, v, which may be 

 devoted to a variety of purposes, as, lor 

 example, a rosary on a small scale, or a bed 

 with a sundial, or even a fountain in the 

 centre, or it may be converted into a circular 

 basin for aquatic plants, with a fountain in 

 the middle of it, or piece of statuary, w, 

 x, Y, and z are pieces of ground which may 

 be assigned for such purposes as the owner 

 of the garden may prefer ; for instance, w 

 and x may be planted with currants, goose- 

 berries, raspberries, &c., and vegetables 



PLAN SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF GARDEN FOR COTTAGE OK VILLA. 



vegetables and the more tender crops. In 

 the centre of this border, breaking its con- 

 tinuity, is a space, Q,. which may be utilised 

 as a frame for melons or cucumbers, or as 

 a summer house, according to taste. R is a 

 border before the east wall, on which plums 

 may be grown : this border may be broad, 

 as P, or narrow, as the border, s, in front of 

 the north wall, on which plums and morello 

 cherries may be grown, the border being 

 utilised as a reserve garden in miniature. 

 The corner, T, is set apart for manure and 

 the reception of such rubbish as will accu- 

 mulate in a garden, but cannot be immedi- 



raised in Y and z. Pyramid apple and pear 

 trees may be placed at the corners of these 

 pieces, and espalier or cordon trees be 

 trained between them. The object in 

 forming this garden plan has been to get 

 as much variety as possible into a limited 

 space. 



Cottage Gardens, Cultivation 

 and Management of. 



This subject naturally divides itself into 



two parts the preparation of the soil, and 



the rotation of crops grown thereon. It is 



I a mistake to suppose that these points, and 



