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equilibrium of the physical, intellectual, and moral 

 forces which makes the true man. 



I will now submit a few jDractical remarks on what 

 may be called the Cottage Vegetable Garden, or rather 

 Fruit and Vegetable Garden ; for, on a limited plot, 

 they ought not to be separated. There is no good 

 reason why a man with three or four city lots, each 

 25 by 100 feet, should not indulge the luxury of a few 

 choice fruits, equally with him who owns his acres. 



In what follows, it is supposed that the lots run 

 north and south, the house being built on the north 

 front, and the flower-garden separated from the vege- 

 table by a rose-trellis the full width of the lots. The 

 flower-garden and lawn w.ill occupy another article. 



Let us suppose a man has four lots of ground, two 

 of which are taken up with a house, lawn, flower-gar- 

 den, &c. He will then have a plot 50 by 100 for a 

 fruit and vegetable garden. Now it will not do to use 

 half of this up with walks — -a thing quite too common. 



Beginning at the rose-trellis, lay ofl" a central walk 

 four feet wide, through the length of the garden ; then, 

 immediately behind the rose-trellis, lay off a grape- 

 border ten feet wide, and parallel with this a walk 

 three feet wide, stopping three feet short of each side- 

 fence ; then borders three feet wide next the east and 

 west fence ; then, parallel with these, a walk three feet 

 wide ; then a central walk four feet wide, through th^ 



