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THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



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Fig. 32. 



filled by two water rams; the pipes are 

 laid below the frost. 



The water tower is eighteen feet square, 

 and forty-five high, placed upon a terrace 

 for beauty, and to gain elevation. Within 

 is a reservoir seven feet square and thirty- 

 four feet high, constructed in the strong- 

 est manner. From the bottom the water 

 is conducted in 2-inch iron pipes, three 

 and a half feet below the sod, and lateral 

 pipes of lead, varying in size to supply 

 hydrants for root culture, irrigation, the 

 cattle-yard, stable, garden, the house, 

 and fountains. 



A useful and simple trough is repre- 

 sented by cut No. 32, which it will be 

 well to adopt in watering ground that has 

 a slight fall. 



This simple trough may be six inches 

 wide, with sluiceways every few feet, 

 formed by pieces of the sides cut out 

 and turning on pivots in the centre, 

 which, when open, shut off the water 

 from further progress down the trough 

 by falling back against the side, and 

 allows it to escape through an opening 

 wherever it may be wanted. 



For strawberry beds, and, indeed, all 

 plants that require much water, this sim- 

 ple contrivance, which may be varied in 

 many ways, will be found truly useful. 



THE FEUIT GARDEN. 



PLANTING FRUIT-TREES. 



Such fruit-trees as are not yet burst into leaf may be transplanted 

 in the early part of the month, but any that are either in leaf or 

 flower will suffer considerably by such unseasonable removal. How- 

 ever, when late planting is from some cause unavoidable, and having 

 a previous knowledge thereof, it would, in that case, be highly proper 

 to take up the trees some time before, to check their shooting, and 

 lay them by the roots in a trench of earth till they can be planted. 



