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Blackberries. Raspherrses. 
Plum or peach trees may be used in place 
of apple or pear 
and of beds, vines, etc., the names of all vari- 
eties planted and notes on the future plans 
of the garden, such as the rotation of small 
fruits, and the cutting out of tree fruits. 
Having made a good plan, follow it consist- 
ently. Often a garden that was well planned 
in the beginning is completely demoralized 
by subsequent deviations from the original 
purpose. If the original plan is put on paper 
in full detail, and followed faithfully, the re- 
sults are sure to be far more satisfactory. 
The fall is an excellent time to settle all the 
preliminaries and much of the planting may 
also be done now. 
HOW MUCH OF EACH FRUIT TO PLANT? 
That depends upon the space available, 
the adaptability of each fruit for the locality, 
the personal preferences of the family, etc. 
The ideal home fruit garden includes all the 
fruits that can be grown successfully in the 
locality and in sufficient quantity to meet the 
needs and tastes of all the family. But this 
ideal is rarely realized; limitations of space 
and of funds usually make it impracticable. 
CONSULT THE TASTES OF THE FAMILY 
It ought to be unnecessary to advise the 
amateur to take into account the desires of 
his family when planning his garden; yet I 
have seen many gardens which imperfectly 
reflected the varying tastes of all the members. 
I should be sorry to learn that anybody has 
adopted, without change, any one of the gar- 
den plans accompanying this sketch, unless 
he has first submitted the suggestions con- 
cerning the relative number of plants of each 
fruit to his family for approval. ‘These plans, 
and all others that I have seen published, call 
for a fair proportion of all the standard fruits, 
because that is the only basis upon which one 
can advise, with any degree of definiteness. 
THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE GARDEN 
Usually it is best, if expedient, to put the 
tree fruits by themselves in an orchard and to 
plant the small fruits in connection with the 
vegetable garden. It is much better to asso- 
ciate the small fruits with the vegetable gar- 
den than with the orchard, because they love 
the same kind of soil that is necessary for the 
production of choice vegetables—one that 
has been made rich and full of humus by 
liberal dressings of manure, while the tree 
fruits can get along very well without so much 
richness. Often, however, this arrange- 
ment is not practicable. If the locality is 
troubled with severe winds that are likely 
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to injure the fruit it is well to plant a row of 
apples on the side that receives the prevailing 
wind. If the locality suffers from winter 
injuries, put the hardier fruits, as apples and 
pears, on the outside of the fruit garden, and 
the more tender fruits, as peaches and plums, 
in the centre. Give early varieties a sunny 
spot. Why not use fruit trees for shade and 
ornament around the house? They are 
beautiful in blossom, in foliage and in fruit. 
The transcendent crab is especially desirable 
for this purpose. Oftentimes grapes can be 
used to advantage on arbors or trained on 
fences. Where the home grounds are small, 
it may be a good plan, if your neighbor is 
affable, to plant a row of grapes on the boun- 
dary line. I have seen this co-operative fruit 
growing carried out very successfully, where 
neighbors are neighborly. Each year, at the 
time of fruitage, the two men would go up and 
down the row and divide it into halves, on the 
basis of fruit on the vines. Good neighbors 
are almost a prerequisite to success in ama- 
teur fruit growing. 
PLAN TO ECONOMIZE LABOR 
With most people the chief essential in a 
fruit garden is that it shall bring in as much 
asitcosts,ormore. ‘This means that it, must 
be arranged so that it can be tilled, pruned, 
sprayed, and fertilized with the least expendi- 
ture of time and money. 
Ease of access adds much to the pleasure 
and to the economy of the fruit garden. The 
city or suburban garden is necessarily close 
to the house; but the fruit garden of the 
country home is sometimes unnecessarily dis- 
tant from it. The idea should be to put the 
fruit and the vegetable gardens as close to the 
kitchen as is expedient. They are, in fact, 
extensions of the kitchen. It will, indeed, 
usually pay to sacrifice somewhat on the site 
and soil of the fruit garden in order to gain 
the paramount advantage of convenience. 
PLAN TO MAKE TILLAGE EASY 
The garden area should be oblong rather 
than square, because of greater ease in tillage. 
It is easy to demonstrate that less time is lost 
in turning a horse around at the ends of the 
rows in an oblong garden than in a square 
garden, but the contour of the land, and the 
-character of the soil, should have more in- 
fluence in determining the shape of the 
garden. 
A common mistake is to leave no room for 
the tillage horse to turn around at the ends of 
the rows, and no room for tillage between the 
outside row and the fence. In the smallest 
city garden it is justifiable to plant right up 
to the boundary line, but not in a garden of 
one-quarter acre, or over. Avoid cross rows 
of trees on the sides and ends of the garden, 
borders of flowers, perennial vegetables, or 
anything else that would interfere with con- 
tinuous, economical tillage. For example, 
do not plant at the end of a row of grapes, 
which are eight feet apart, two rows of cur- 
rants, which are five feet apart, so that con- 
tinuous tillage is intercepted. Plan the gar- 
den so that a busy man can get out his 
cultivator after supper, and go right through 
it from beginning to end, stirring all the 
