16 FRUIT AND KITCHEN GARDEN. 



it is better, in the first formation of a garden, to inclose 

 too large than too small a space. 



The productiveness of such an establishment will de- 

 pend chiefly upon the natural fertility of the soil, and 

 the favorable kind of situation, but also in a consider- 

 able degree upon the labor bestowed upon.the culture. 

 Where a garden is undertvorked (to use a gardener's 

 phrase), the finer products must necessarily be scanty, 

 for whatever requires care requires-time ; and it not un- 

 frequently happens that a gardener fails in some crop, 

 not from defect of method or skill, but because he had 

 not been able to overtake it, or has been obliged to make 

 his preparations in a hurried and insufficient manner. 

 All circumstances being favorable, a British garden is 

 perhaps unrivaled in fertility by any cultivated spot in 

 the world. A copious supply of esculents flows into the 

 kitchen at all seasons ; and after a rich abundance of 

 fruit has been afi"orded during summer and autumn, the 

 winter stores may be easily prolonged till the early 

 forced fruits come again to the table. 



We shall first treat of th^ general properties and ap- 

 pendages of the Fruit and Kitchen Garden. 



Situation. — The position of the garden in relation to 

 the mansion-house properly belongs to the province of 

 Landscape-Gardening, as it obviously should be in 

 keeping with the general features of the park scenery. 

 There should intervene a lawn, or piece of green sward, 

 of larger or less dimensions ; and great attention should 

 be paid to the original formation of such lawn. After 

 the surface of the ground has been leveled and made 

 fine, some such selection of gra,ss-seeds as the following 

 (calculated for half an acre) should be adopted: Lolium 



