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equilibrium of the physical, intellectual, and moral 

 forces which makes the true man. 



I will now submit a few practical 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 

 n< rth 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 will 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 off 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 

 wrest fence; then, parallel with these, a walk three feet- 

 wide ; then a central walk four feet wide, through the 



