92 THE VILLA GARDENER. 



it is dark at that liour ; such as digging and cropping the culinary part of the 

 garden, &c. 



142. Expense of management. — If the operations of culture and keeping 

 are performed by the occupier himself, the annual amount of money required 

 to be laid out will be very trifling. The first year, a good garden syringe, 

 some watering-pots, a pnuiing-knife, a hammer, nails and list, a spade, rake, 

 hoe, trowel, and three-pronged fork, a garden line, baskets, and ladder for 

 the vine, &c., against the house, amounting in all to about 10^. or 12/., will 

 require to be purchased ; but the second and succeeding years there will only 

 be wanted a few garden seeds, manure, tobacco, or other articles for destroy- 

 ing insects ; nails, list, matting (for tying the espaliers, and for protecting 

 any of the tender ornamental plants during winter, and the blossoms of the 

 tender fruits in spring), and some occasional repairs and renewals; the cost 

 of the whole of which cannot exceed \l. or 21. To employ a gardener to do 

 all the work requisite in such a garden, during the summer months, would 

 cost at least 3«. or 3s, 6d. per day ; and thus, supposing him to Avork, at an 

 average, three days a week, from the 1st of March to the 1st of November, 

 the cost will amount to about 10/. at 3s. a day, and 12/, at 3s. Qd. The 

 remaining part of the year, viz. from the 1st of November to the 1st of March, 

 (about seventeen or eighteen weeks,) need not cost, on an average, more 

 than 3s. Gd. a week. The whole expense, including seeds, &c., would thus 

 be about 20/. a year. Where a man-servant was kept who was fond of gar- 

 dening, he might, with occasional instructions during the first year from a 

 professional gardener, perform all the work requisite, 



143. The produce of such a suburban garden would, if a hired gardener 

 were employed, probably not be worth more than the expense, if so much : 

 but the great satisfaction of seeing the things in all their different stages of 

 growth, and of being able to procure fresh salading and herbs nearly all the 

 year; and, at the proper seasons, spinach, kidney -beans, and peas, when 

 wanted, quite fresh out of the garden; will more than compensate for the 

 outlay required to any person who can afford it. To those who cannot, or 

 who do not wish to incur the necessary expense, we shall suggest a cheaper 

 mode of planting and management. 



A more economical mode of laying out and planting a back garden of the 

 size of one of those mfig. 35. In this case, we would advise the trellis and 

 strawberry edgings to be omitted, and the cross beds to be extended to the 

 margins of the paved walks. One of these beds maj' be planted with goose- 

 berries, another with currants, and a third with raspberries ; and the other 

 beds with kitchen crops and herbs, much in the same manner as indicated 

 above, except that there will be only three beds for peas, instead of six. 

 Against the house, there need not be any vine or other plant trained ; and 

 the circular bed in front may be planted solely with bulbs and annuals. This 

 will lessen the first cost of the garden one-fifth or one-sixth, and the labour 

 and expense of keeping it one-half. 



§ 3. — Suburban gardens, where the principal object is ornamental display. 



Design VI. — To lag out a small suburban garden, where the main object is 

 a display of ornamental trees and shrubs and border fowers. 



144. General arrangement. — VVe shall suppose the extent and form of the 

 ground to be the same as in /^. 34., p. 71., and that the walks are flagged. 



