818 SATURDAY IN MY GARDEN 



ping of the leaves will be retarded to such an extent that the 

 " lifting " of trees in the nurseries will be proportionately delayed. 



But whatever the state of the weather, it is a good plan to 

 order your fruit trees as early in the autumn as possible. Even 

 if you have to wait several weeks for their delivery there will be no 

 cause for anxiety. So long as you get all your planting done 

 before Christmas you can afford to wait complacently with entire 

 dependence on the judgment of the nurseryman, and with profit, 

 for the arrival of a suitable spell of dry weather hi which to com- 

 plete the work. 



Let us suppose that as is usually the case in the smaller type 

 of garden one half of the plot is devoted to flowers and the other 

 to vegetables. It is obvious that the introduction of standard 

 or bush fruit trees into the flower beds and borders would be 

 neither good for the flowers nor profitable for the fruit trees. It 

 is clear, therefore, that room for the new-comers must be found 

 in the vegetable portion of the garden, but this can be done in 

 such a manner as not to swallow up any great extent of ground. 



Nothing adds more to the charm of a garden than a suitable 

 partition between the kitchen and the flower sections. This may 

 be provided in many ways. It may either be a trellis fence 

 covered with climbing roses, nasturtiums or canary creeper, or 

 merely a well-grown privet hedge. But why not combine profit 

 with beauty by planning a row of espalier apple or plum trees to 

 serve the same purpose ? Such a partition as this Heed not rob 

 your kitchen garden of more than a foot of ground. At the far 

 end of the vegetable plot two rows of bush trees, either apple, 

 pear or plum, could be planted with advantage, and along each 

 side currant or gooseberry bushes would provide an excellent 

 setting for the vegetable quarters. For walls or fences apples, 

 pears, plums, cherries, and peaches may all be utilised. They 

 should be trained flat against the wall, either horizontally T- 

 shaped ; or fanwise V-shaped. Apples and pears are usually 

 trained horizontally and plums and peaches obliquely. 



As a preliminary to planting, the ground in which the trees are 

 to thrive must be thoroughly trenched. At the bottom of the 



