The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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THE HOME FRUIT GARDEN. 



A SUBSCRIBER asks how to lay out a fruit garden of half an acre, for 

 home supplies. This is so much a matter of taste, and of special 

 requirements, that it would be impossible to give any plan which 

 would be at all likely to meet with universal approval. A few points, how- 

 ever, on this subject, may interest our readers. 



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Fig. 25. — The Farmer's Fruit Garden. 



First to be considered is the location. It should be near the housej 

 where it is of easy access for gathering the fruit as it is needed, so that it 

 may be always fresh. One advantage of having it somewhere in the house- 

 yard is in dispensing with a fence. Nothing so interferes with the careful 

 cultivation of a garden as a close fence, that excludes all horse cultivation. 

 The time is gone by when it pays to hire a man to dig the garden with a 

 spade, and with the same instrument to care for the rows of small fruits. 

 We cannot afford such expenditure for labor, and the consequence is the 

 plantation falls into neglect, the owner is discouraged, and the fruit garden 

 becomes a thing of the past. 



Secondly, in regard to shape. The fruit garden should be longer than 

 broad, for convenience in horse cultivation. One hundred feet wide by two 



