DISTRIBUTION OF FRUIT-TREES IN A KITCHEN-GARDEN. 



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covered with netting, to preserve it from birds and so retain it on'the trees 

 till Christmas. North of London, pears, and apples of the finer kinds, are 



trained against walls; and 

 north of York, even the 

 mulberry, which in Scot- 

 land never ripens fruit as 

 a standard. Nuts, such 

 x , v as the walnut, sweet ches- 

 \\ \ nut, and filbert, are almost 

 \ \ \ always grown as stan- 

 t dards; but the crops of 

 the two former are very 

 precarious north of York, 

 and but rarely ripened in 

 Scotland. The only sug- 

 gestions that can be given 

 for selecting the trees 

 which require a wall in 

 any given situation are, to 

 observe what has been 

 done in gardens in the 

 same locality or in similar 

 localities. The lists given 

 consist of varieties which 

 have all been proved to be 

 of first-rate excellence, and 

 are, with few exceptions, 

 the same as those, for the 

 selection of which, we had 

 the assistance of Mr. 

 Thompson, by permission 

 of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety. In choosing from 

 these lists for a garden in 

 the north of Scotland, the 

 grapes and the figs will be 

 rejected altogether for the 

 open walls, because they 

 would not ripen there; 

 while for a garden in the 

 south of England the ap- 

 ples and pears would be 

 rejected, because there the 

 / fruits would ripen suffi- 

 / ciently well in the open 

 ( / garden, as espaliers,dwarfs, 

 rrr<^ or standards. We shall 



here give only the names 

 too of the kinds selected ; other 



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Fig. 331. Plan of aUtcJicn-garden, containing one acre within particulars will be found 

 the walls, and three quarters of an acre in the slips, at the i n our f ru jt catalogue 

 two ends. 



