CHAPTER XVI 



A BEAUTIFUL FRUIT GARDEN 



There is a whole range of possible beautiful treatment 

 in fruit-growing that is rarely carried out or even 

 attempted. Hitherto but little has been done to 

 make the fruit garden a place of beauty ; we find it 

 almost flaunting its unloveliness, its white painted 

 orchard-houses and vineries, its \yires and wire-nettings. 

 It is not to be denied that all these are necessary, and 

 that the usual and most obvious way of working them 

 does not make for beauty. But in designing new 

 gardens or remodelling old, on a rather large scale, 

 there need be no difficulty in so arranging that all 

 that is necessarily unbeautiful should be kept in one 

 department, so hedged or walled around as to be out 

 of sight. 



In addition to such a fruit garden for strict utility 

 I have in mind a walled enclosure of about an acre 

 and a half, longer than wide, laid out as shown in the 

 plan. I have seen in large places just such spaces, 

 actually walled but put to no use. 



The wall has trained fruit-trees — Peaches spreading 

 their goodly fans. Pears showing long, level lines, and, 

 including hardy Grape Vines, giving all the best 

 exposition of the hardy fruit-grower's art. Next to 



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