140 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING 



Sometimes owners of gardens like to plant trees, both evergret 

 and deciduous, in their fences. Fig. 6 shows how the trees must I 

 planted. A shows a specimen before it is lifted, B shows it du 

 lifted, and c, the most important sketch of all, shows how it 

 planted. It is absolutely necessary to prepare the positions car 

 fully, and advisable to put in comparatively small specimens. 



FIG. 5 



FIG. 6 



Making a Small Kitchen Garden 



The amateur who intends to make a small kitchen garden mui 

 set about the work just as cautiously and as carefully as the perse 

 who contemplates making a very large garden. In the small garde 

 every square foot of ground must be utilised to the very best advai. 

 tage. This also should be so in the case of the large garden ; but 

 every available yard of ground be not cropped the loss is perhapi 

 not as much felt as in the case of the smaller garden. 



Q. Is it absolutely necessary to have a wall or other kind of fenc 

 built round a new kitchen garden 1 



