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(h) upon tlic plan denotes a line of strawberries, 

 one foot distant from each other, extending around 

 the outside and inside borders on both sides of the 

 walk. 



(d) is a line of peaches, reaching across the inside 

 border, eight feet apart, pruned into a dwarfish 

 habit. 



(e) represents four lines of dwarf pears, of the 

 same distance from each other as the peaches, and 

 containing a selection of varieties which shall afford 

 a supply for the whole season. 



(f) is a line of summer-bearing raspberries, four 

 feet distant, three plants being set in a hill. 



([/) is a row of currants. 



[h) a line of fall-bearing raspberries, planted 

 like (/). 



(^) is a row of gooseberries. 



By this plan we have, upon one-tenth of an acre, 

 thirty-two grape vines, four hundred strawberry 

 plants, five peach trees, sixteen pear trees, eight 

 hills of summer raspberries, the same number for 

 the autumn, eight currant bushes, and an equal 

 number of gooseberry plants. This is a sample of 

 the intensive cultivation which should be more ex- 

 tensively practised. One often hears it said that 

 such cultivation becomes a garden, but is not 

 adapted to the orchard. But this should be a 

 garden ; and, until it is so considered and treated, it 

 will not yield all the profit of which it is capable. 



