KITCHEN-GARDEN AND ORCHARD 51 
position should always be chosen, and if the trees are 
to be grown on the plantation system, that is on arable 
land, there is no need for the site to be easily approached 
from the pleasure grounds. Except during the blossom 
season the utility orchard is not particularly beautiful, 
and there is little inducement for visitors to make it part 
of their round of inspection. However, it should 
always be so situated that the fruit may be safe from 
trespassers, who are often troublesome when the 
orchard is close to a main road. 
The old grass land orchard, filled with picturesque 
standard trees, is capable of being made a wild garden 
of true beauty. In early spring we may have troops of 
golden daffodils and silvery narcissi, making vistas of 
colour among the lines of grey trunks. Ropes of purple 
_and white clematis may festoon the trees, and some of 
the semi-wild roses, with their rich foliage and single 
flowers will fill the hedges and ramble over the banks. 
The cool swordlike foliage of Iris, with the stately 
spikes of flowers, the old-fashioned holly-hocks and 
spreading clumps of poppies, may all find a home in the 
chequered shade of the orchard. White Madonna lilies 
will fringe the pathway, and honeysuckle and sweet- 
briar would welcome us at the gate. But lest I be 
misunderstood—this orchard, lovely though it be and 
easy of attainment, is not for fruit; at least the crops 
will be small and blemished, and very different to those 
from the market grower’s plantation, where the idea of 
climbers twisting among the branches of the trees 
would be regarded as an act of vandalism. But to the 
lover of flowers, the setting of an old orchard is so 
precious, that some sacrifice is willingly made to enable 
the possession of this kind of wild garden. 
