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DISTRIBUTION OF FRUIT-TREES IN A KITCHEN GARDEN, 



14. Peach-house. 



15. Vinery. 



16. Pits. 



17. Back-shed. 



18. Department for compost, mixing 



dung, &c. 



19. Mushroom-sheds, tool-house, 



wintering vegetables, &c. 



20. Slips, bounded by a sunk wall 



Supposing the flower-gardens and 

 references may stand as under : 



1. Fruit-garden. 



2, 3, 4, 5. To be omitted, if not 



desirable. 

 6, 7, 8. Culinary departments with 



espaliers. 

 9. Pond. 



10. Forcing department. 



11. Water-basin. 



12. Ranges of pits, for melons, cu- 



cumbers, &c. 



13. Pine-stove. 



14. Peach-house. 



15. Vinery. 



fence, surmounted by an open 

 iron railing. 



21. Gardener's house. 



22. Fruit and onion room, with 



lodging-room for under-gar- 

 dener, and seed-room over. 



23. Yard to gardener's house. 



24. For pot-herbs. 



hothouses are tc be omitted, then the 



16. Pits. 



17. Back-shed. 



18. Department for compost, mixing 



dung, &c. 



19. Mushroom-sheds, tool-house, 



wintering vegetables, &c. 



20. Slips, as before. 



21. Gardener's house. 



22. Fruit and onion room, with 



lodging-room for under-gar- 

 dener, and seed-room over. 



23. Yard to gardener's house. 



24. For pot-herbs. 



The following plan, fig. 331, contains an acre within the walls, and is 

 without a gardener's house, or slips at the sides, the situation being sup- 

 posed to render it necessary to conceal the walls by a plantation of evergreen 

 shrubs made close to them. To prevent the roots of these shrubs from 

 penetrating to the borders inside of the walls, their foundations must be at 

 least three feet deep in the most impervious subsoil, and deeper still on soil 

 that they will readily penetrate. The following are references : 



o, a, Fruit-garden, the border next 

 the outer fence for pot-herbs. 



6, 6, Culinary departments with espa- 

 liers. 



c, c, Forcing department. 



d, d, Department for compost, mixing 



dung, &c. 



e, e, Ranges of pits for melons and 



cucumbers. 



/, Pine-stove. 



#, Peach-house. 



h, Vinery. 



t, t, Pits. 



fr, Back-shed. 



/, /, Sheds for mushrooms, or for other 



purposes, 

 m, m, Water-basins. 



SECT. II. The distribution of Fruit-trees in a kitchen-garden. 

 887. The more delicate fruit-trees are always placed against walls, and 

 those which are less so are planted in the open garden as standards, dwarfs, 

 or espaliers. South of London the trees planted against walls are chiefly the 

 grape, fig, peach, nectarine, and apricot. Sometimes there are planted against 

 walls of a south aspect, one or two choice plums, a few cherries to come 

 into early bearing ; and on the north side of an east and west wall, some 

 Morello cherries and sometimes currants, to come in late ; the fruit being 



