CROPS AND PROFITS 



often sell to the nurseryman for more than 

 enough to pay the cost of resetting. On either 

 side of this walk, in a border of six feet wide, 

 the farmer may plant his dwarf-fruit, with 

 grapes at intervals to climb upon a home-made 

 cedar trellis, that shall overarch and embower 

 the walk. If he love an evening pipe in his 

 garden, he may plant some simple seat under 

 one or more of these leafy arbors. 



At least one-half of the garden, as I before 

 suggested, he may easily arrange, to till, — 

 spring and autumn, — with the plough; and 

 whatever he places there in the way of tree 

 and shrub, must be in lines parallel with the 

 walk. On the other half, he will be subjected 

 to no such limitations; there, he will establish 

 his perennials — his asparagus, his thyme, his 

 sage, and parsley; his rhubarb, his gooseber- 

 ries, strawberries, and raspberries; and in an 

 angle — hidden if he choose by a belt of shrub- 

 bery — he may have his hotbed and compost heap. 

 Fork-culture, which all these crops demand, 

 will admit of any arrangement he may prefer, 

 and he may enliven the groupings, and win the 

 goodwife's favor, by here and there a little 

 circlet of such old-fashioned flowers as tulips — 

 yellow lilies and white, with roses of all shades. 



Upon the other half he may make distribu- 



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