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rations required to be carried on, with the trees, &c,, at proper 

 distances ; in short, combining all the principal objects and 

 features in such order, that there may be full scope for the 

 cultivation of all the larger crops, and subdivisions enouo-h 

 for the smaller. 



Under such an arrangement, the ground duly cropped, the 

 trees neatly trained, the soil and walks free from weeds, and 

 the whole face of the garden clean and orderly, whose eye 

 would such a sight offend? or, rather, who would not be 

 delighted with such a scene? 



To show yourself and readers that a kitchen -garden may 

 even be an ornament, I hand you herewith a plan {^g. 97.) 

 of one of which I have the charge, should you think it worthy 

 of a place in your work. In this plan you will observe the 

 walls (a), the walks {b), the paths (c), 8 ft. borders round the 

 gravel walks (d), a basin of water (e), the melon ground (^ ), 

 nursery and reserve ground (g), carriage road (/^) crossing the 

 garden, and slip, which is surrounded by a holly hedge. 

 The whole contains five acres. On the south side a spot is 

 devoted to the hot-houses and flower-garden, but neither this 

 nor the pleasure-ground appears in the plan. 



Be pleased to remember that I do not present it as a pat- 

 tern for others, though I thought it the best I could devise at 

 the time I laid it out, but that it may furnish ideas on the 

 subject, and, perhaps, induce others to send their plans; 

 which, together, might not be an entirely useless part of your 

 Magazine. I am, Sir, &c. 



William Wilson. 

 Merly House, Wimborne Minster, Aug. 28. 1 827. 



Art. XVIII. On movable Coping and Coverings for Fruit 

 Walls ; and on fastening Wall Trees mth Wire and Matting, 

 instead of Nails and Shreds. By Mr. A. Caldecott, F.H.S. 



Sir, 

 I BEG leave to recommend the subjoined plan of a tem- 

 porary coping made of boards, at a trifling expense, which, 

 by an experience of several years, I have found to answer 

 much better than a permanent one. Being removable when 

 the occasion for it has ceased, it is not attended with the incon- 

 venience incident to a permanent one, namely, harbouring 

 insects, and keeping the sun and dew from the upper branches, 

 when the access of the two latter is desirable. The boards, 

 which may be either deal or larch, should be about three fourths 



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