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carefully considered. Two or three acres of kitchen 

 garden, enclosed by walls and surrounded by slips, 

 will suffice for the supply of a moderate establish- 

 ment.* The form of the kitchen garden advocated 

 by the writer in the ''Encyclopaedia" is that of a square, 

 or oblong, not curvilinear, since the work of cropping 

 of the ground can thus be more easily carried out. 

 On the whole, the best form is that of a parallelogram, 

 with its longest sides in the proportion of about five 

 to three of the shorter, and running east and west. 

 The whole should be compactly arranged so as to 

 facilitate working, and to afford convenient access 

 for the carting of heavy materials to the store- 

 yards, etc. 



There can, as we have said, be no fixed or uniform 

 arrangement of gardens. Some grounds will have 

 more flower-beds than others, some more park or 

 wilderness; some will have terraces, some not; some 

 a pinetum, or an American garden. In some gardens 

 the terraces will lie immediately below the main front 

 of the house, in others not, because the geometrical 

 garden needs a more sheltered site where the 

 flowers can thrive. 



* As the walls afford valuable space for the growth of the choicer 

 kinds of hardy fruits, the direction in which they are built is of con- 

 siderable importance. "In the warmer parts of the country, the wall 

 on the north side of the garden should be so placed as to face the sun 

 at about an hour before noon, or a little to east of south ; in less 

 favoured localities it should be made to face direct south, and in the 

 still more unfavourable districts it should face the sun an hour after 

 noon, or a little west of south. The east and west walls should 

 run parallel to each other, and at right angles to that on the north 

 side." 



