Reserve 

 garden. 



Orchards. 



KITCHEN GARDENS AND ORCHARDS. 



Winter, men living at a distance are liable to neglect the fires and the protection of their 

 frames. If we are to maintain our national reputation in gardening, there must be a 

 thorough system of oversight by the head gardener often extending beyond ordinary 

 work hours. This necessitates the gardener's cottage and a bothy being placed at or 

 near the gardens, as in illustration No. 298, and in direct connection with the frame 

 ground. As it will be necessary for the whole staff to work under shelter on wet 

 days, the sheds in the frame ground should also be ample. 



In the illustration just referred to is given a drawing of the frame ground at Wych 

 Cross, Ashdown Forest. This is part of an extensive garden laid out about eight years 

 ago for Douglas W. Freshfield, Esq., and is supplemented by a stick and manure yard 

 some one hundred yards distant but in convenient relation to it. It gives the 

 accommodation which would be necessary in the frame ground for a moderate-sized 

 country house. It is a part of the garden which does not to-day receive the care and 



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attention formerly devoted to it, though it would seem to be more necessary than 

 ever, for it is here that so much of the best work is done, and upon its plan and 

 arrangement depends, in a large measure, the tidiness of other parts of the garden. It 

 is, in short, the gardener's workshop and warehouse for raw materials. 



In most gardens, except those of very moderate extent, a reserve garden should 

 be arranged for, or a grassy or garden orchard formed, a place where relief may be 

 found from the effort and ambition of producing the largest fruit of the most striking 

 varieties. The reserve garden has shorn grass paths with espaliers, damson, crab and 

 cherry, and quaint fruit trees on the French system, with a wealth of herbaceous 

 borders and overarching wreaths of roses, but is not so prolific as the garden orchard. 



More romances of fiction and song have been laid in an orchard than anywhere 

 else, for, if rightly considered, it is the one part of the domain above all others which 

 speaks of seclusion, peace, quiet and rest, a close commune with nature and rural pleasures. 

 It is the garden of romance and song, of birds and bees and flowers, of tender memories 



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