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PERMANENT PLANTATIONS. 



ard peaches, apricots, plums, quinces, etc., at twelve feet 

 apart, and the two ends with pyramids at eight feet. 



The inside borders are planted with pyramids and 

 dwarfs, the former at eight, and the latter at six feet 

 apart. is the entrance ; well or cistern ; (7, a space 

 , to turn a horse and cart upon. This arrangement gives 

 thirty standard trees, eighty -three p^^ramids, and forty 

 dwarfs, leaving clear the outside border over six hundred 

 and* sixty feet long and six wide, and the four interior 

 compartments each about thirty by sixty feet. In crop- 

 ping the latter with vegetables, they may be divided as 

 in the design into narrow beds three or four feet wide, 

 separated by paths eighteen inches wide. 



Walks in tJie Fruit Garden. — The number of these, as 

 has^ been remarked, should be simply sufficient for con- 

 ducting the operations of gardening with convenience ; 

 this -being provided for, the fewer the better. Where 

 horse labor is employed, the main walk, either through 

 the centre or around the sides, should be nine or ten feet 

 wide. "Wliere manual labor alone is employed, as in 

 small gardens, five or six feet will be sufficient, and even 

 four feet, as that admits of the passage of a wheel-barrow. 

 Between each compartment, or line of trees, there should 

 also be a path two or three feet wide, as a passage for the 

 gardener or workmen, and others who may desire to 

 inspect the trees. Where the expense can be afibrded, 

 the mains walk should be gravelled so as to be dry and 

 comfortable at all seasons and in every state of the wea- 

 ther ; for it is presumed that every man who has a fruit 

 garden, worthy of the name, will wish to visit it almost 

 daily, and so will the members of his family and his 

 friends who visit him. The labor and expense of making 

 a walk depends upon the nature of the soil'. If dry, 

 with a porous subsoil, absorbing water rapidly, six 

 inches of good pit gravel, slightly rounded on the top, 



