THE 



FRUIT GARDEN. 



INTRODUCTION. 



NEXT to the importance of cultivating culinary 

 vegetables, is that of cultivating fruits. Most fruits, 

 when well matured, are nutritive, and pleasant to 

 the palate. No doubt we can better dispense with 

 fruits, than with certain culinary vegetables ; and 

 the lower classes are obliged to be contented with 

 few, or with, the kinds more common, and such as 

 are easily obtained. But the wealthy are often at 

 greater expence and trouble in procuring fruits, than 

 in procuring kitchen esculents, and more cheerfully 

 bestow such expence. 



The charms of a handsome desert are great ; and 

 pains have been taken to procure fruits from all parts 

 of the world, to furnish, and set it the better out. 

 The pleasure is greatly increased by the idea, and it 

 is often with delight the guests are told, that " these 

 " are the productions of my own garden." In short, 

 the anxiety attendant on the cultivation of exotic 



