140 THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



the hope of being able, in the following pages, to 

 set forth methods of cultivating many kinds of 

 fruits, that shall both be satisfactory and instructive. 



SECT. I. 



ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF GARDEN-WALLS, &C. 



THE chief reason for rearing walls around a garden 

 is for the production of fruits. A kitchen-garden, 

 considered merely as such, may be as completely 

 fenced and sheltered by hedges, as by walls ; as in- 

 deed they were, in former times, and examples of 

 that mode of fencing are still to be met with. But 

 in order to obtain the finer fruits, it becomes neces- 

 sary to build walls, and to erect pales and railings ; 

 and the ground thus inclosed is generally occupied 

 in the productions of esculents, and of flowers. 

 Hence the fruit-garden is generally combined with 

 the kitchen and the flower-gardens ; and hence a 

 simplicity and neatness in the construction of our 

 walled gardens, unknown to former times. The 

 forcing, or exotic garden is often added to these, 

 and the whole becomes a scene of great interest and 

 resort. 



In designing and laying out a modern garden, 

 then, a degree of taste, as well as of fitness or pro- 

 priety, ought to be displayed ; the basis of which is 

 the right placing, proportioning, and constructing 

 of the walls. If these be properly set down, so as 



