1 12 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [Feb. 



for general use in kitchen gardens, especially in such parts of the 

 garden where wheel-barrows are obliged to come often, which 

 would cut and greatly deface them; besides, they are apt to be 

 wet and disagreeable in all wet weather and in winter; but if any 

 are intended for summer's walking, they should be only in some 

 dry part of the garden, and never let them be general, for besides 

 the aforementioned inconveniences, they are apt to harbour slugs 

 and other crawling vermin, to the detriment of the adjacent crops. 



The espaliers should be planted in one range round each main 

 quarter, about four to five or six feet from the outer edge of the 

 border, in proportion to its width, and from about fifteen to twenty 

 feet asunder, according to the sorts of fruit trees you plant. 



Within the espaliers in the quarters, you may plant some standard 

 anil fruit trees of the choicer sorts, at fifty feet or more distance 

 each way, especially the large growing standards, that they may 

 not shade the ground too much. 



Likewise in the quarters may be planted the small kinds of fruit- 

 shrubs, as gooseberries, currants, and raspberries in cross rows, 

 so as to divide the quarters into breaks of twenty or thirty feet wide, 

 or more; others in a single range along near the outward edges, 

 or some in continued plantations, placing the bushes nine feet 

 asunder in each row, and if kept somewhat fan-spreading the way 

 of the rows, they will not encumber the ground and will bear very 

 plentiful crops of large fruit; besides, between these rows you can 

 have various early and late crops of vegetables. 



In many places, however, as formerly noticed, there is but a 

 small compass of ground, or so limited as to be obliged to have the 

 kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, all in one, or at least often all 

 within the same general inclosure, in which case, if any distinct 

 part of the ground is required for ornament, a portion of it next the 

 house may be laid out in a lawn or grass-plat, bounded with a 

 shrubbery, beyond which have the kitchen ground, separating it 

 also from the other with shrubbery compartments: the kitchen 

 garden may also be laid out with ornamental walks and borders, 

 having a broad border all round, and next this, a walk from five or 

 six to eight feet wide, carried all round the garden, in proportion 

 to its size, and if the ground is of some considerable width, may 

 have one of similar dimensions extended directly through the 

 middle; and next the walks have a border of four or five to six or 

 seven feet wide, carried round the quarters or principal divisions, 

 which border, if raised a little sloping, from the front to the back 

 part, will appear better than if quite flat; planting a range of 

 espalier fruit trees along towards the back edge of the border, so 

 as immediately to surround the quarters, allotting the outsides of 

 the borders for small esculents or flowers, and small flowering 

 shrubs, having the edges planted with box, &c, or some with 

 strawberries and other edging-plants, and the walks neatly laid 

 with gravel or other materials before mentioned? the inside, 

 within the espaliers, to be the kitchen ground, dividing it, if 

 thought necessary, by rows of gooseberry, currant, and raspberry 

 plants. 



