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the wall is a space six feet wide for ample access 

 to the fruit-trees, their pruning, training and root- 

 management ; then a fourteen-foot plant border, wholly 

 for beauty, and a path eight feet wide. At a middle 

 point on all four sides the high wall has an arched 

 doorway corresponding to the grassy way between the 

 fruit-trees in the middle space. If the wall has some 

 S5nnmetrical building on the outside of each angle, 

 so much the better ; the garden can make use of all. 

 One may be a bothy, with lower extension out of sight ; 

 one a half-underground fruit-store, with bulb-store 

 above ; a third a paint-shop, and a fourth a tea-house. 



The middle space is all turf ; in the centre a Mul- 

 berry, and, both ways across, double lines of fruit-trees, 

 ending with Bays ; the Bays are at the ends on 

 the plan. In almost any part of the sea-warmed 

 south of England, below the fifty-first parallel of 

 latitude, which passes through the upper part of Sussex, 

 the rows of fruit-trees on the green might be standard 

 Figs ; elsewhere they would be bush Pears and Apples. 

 If the soil is calcareous, so much the better for the 

 Figs and Mulberry, the Vines and indeed nearly all 

 the fruits. The angle-clumps in the grass are planted 

 with Magnolias, Yuccas and Hydrangeas. 



The border all round is for small shrubs and plants 

 of some solidity or importance ; the spaces are too 

 long for an ordinary flower border. It would have a 

 good bush of Magnolia stellata at each angle. Yuccas, 

 Tritomas, hardy Fuchsias, Peonies, Euphorbia Wul- 

 fenii, Hollyhocks, Dahlias, Hydrangeas, Michaelmas 

 Daisies, Flag Iris, the beautiful Olearia Gunni and 



