FENCING. 



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extend all around, next the boundary, and next this should 

 be a walk, also ' enthely around, three or four feet wide. 

 If cultivated with the plough, this division into the borders, 

 and two large plats, will be sufficient, but the borders 

 should then be, at least twelve feet wide, to give room 

 enough for those vegetables that will not admit cultiva- 

 tion with this implement. 



The other vegetables may be successfully cultivated in 

 these two plats, in long rows. Where the spade and hoe 

 are used, these oblong plats may be subdivided for con- 

 venience into smaller plats, by walks three feet wide, ex- 

 tending from the borders to the main walk, and a portion 

 of these should be laid out each year by very narrow 

 alleys into beds, four feet wide, for onions, beets, carrots, 

 &c. The earth should be dug out of the main walks, four 

 inches deep, and spread evenly on each side over the 

 adjacent ground. The walks may be filled with gravel, 

 so as to be dry and comfortable, or fresh tan, if accessible, 

 will answer very well, and will keep out the weeds for 

 two years, when it should be used as a dressing for t^^e 

 strawberry beds, and its place filled with a fresh supply. 

 No more walks or alleys should be made than are rec[uired 

 for convenience in gardening operations, and where it is 

 not desirable to admit a cart, the main walk need not be 

 over five or six feet wide. 



Fencing. — The objects of fencing are to procure shel- 

 ter for delicate plants from cold winds, also shade for 

 those that require it, and, above all, to keep out of the 

 garden intruders of all kinds, that the owner may enjoy 

 its fruits without molestation. A high close board fence, 

 or a stone or brick wall, answers a tolerable purpose ; but 

 the only thing to be relied on is a living hedge. The 

 Osage Orange, Pyracanth, Cherokee, and single White 



