284 A GARDEN OF ONE SQUARE ROD. 



§ n. METHODS OF ARRANGEMENT. 



If one has a limited tract of land, it is a question 

 which naturally suggests itself, how can he plant it 

 to the best advantage ? This inquiry is pertinent 

 where large tracts are possessed. In this country, 

 land has been of so little value that our cultivation 

 has been too extensive. The liability has been to 

 spread over a large area, cultivate superficially, and 

 obtain only that from two or three acres which 

 should have been produced from one. The aim 

 should be more mtensive, — to place upon one acre 

 the number of trees often planted upon several, and 

 to give it as much care and as good treatment as the 

 larger tract would have received. This will un- 

 doubtedly be productive of better returns. The 

 farmer who possesses one or two hundred acres of 

 land, and designs becoming a fruit-grower, will do 

 well to retain but ten or twenty, and invest the 

 amount received from the sale of the remainder in 

 stock to be placed upon what he retains, and in 

 bringing the same to the highest possible state of 

 tillage. If we mistake not, his profits will be very 

 much increased. 



There is hardly any one who does not possess 

 land enough, accessible to the sun, to raise some 

 fruit. Supposing he has but one rod square, let us 

 see how he may use it for a fruit-garden, and what 



