22 FRUIT AND KITCHEN GARDEN. 
The productiveness of such an establishment will depend 
chiefly upon the natural fertility of the soil, and the favor- 
able kind of situation, but also in a considerable degree 
upon the labor bestowed upon the culture. Where a gar- 
den is wnderworked (to use a gardener’s phrase), the finer 
products must necessarily be scanty, for whatever requires 
care requires time; and it not unfrequently happens that a 
gardener fails in some crop, not from defect of method or skill, 
but because he had not been able to overtake it, or has been 
obliged to make his preparations in a hurried and insuffi- 
cient manner. All circumstances being favorable, a British 
garden is perhaps unrivaled in fertility by any cultivated 
spot in the world. A copious supply of esculents flows 
into the kitchen at all seasons; and after a rich abundance 
of fruit has been afforded during summer and autumn, the 
winter stores may be easily prolonged till the early foreed 
fruits come again to the table. . 
We shall first treat of the general properties and append- 
ages-of the Fruit and Kitchen Garden. 
Situation.—The position of the garden in relation to 
the mansion-house properly belongs to the province of 
Landscape-Gardening, as it obviously should be in keeping 
with the general features of the park scenery. There 
should intervene a lawn, or piece of green sward, of larger 
or less dimensions ; and great.attention should be paid to 
the original formation of such lawn. After the surface of the 
ground has been leveled and made fine, some such selection 
of grass-seeds as the following (calculated for half an acre) 
should be adopted: Lolium perenne tenue, (Slender Rye- 
Grass,) 8 lbs.; Trifolium repens, (white Dutch Clover,) 
3 lbs.; T. minus, 1 lb.; Cynosurus cristatus, (Orchard 
Grass,) 3 lbs. ; Festuca duriuscula, (Hard or Smooth Fes- 
