PART V. 



CULINARY GARDENING. 



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and to attempt producing shelter by planting, which never can 

 be fully equal to that which is natural. It may be farther 

 added, in favour of the other situations, that the soil is gene- 

 rally of the best quality for fruit-trees. In most places diffe- 

 rent species* of fruit-trees may be advantageously introduced, 

 either in groups, or among other plantations in the park or 

 pleasure-ground ; and it is highly probable, that the improve- 

 ments in the form of the tree, and colour and quality of the 

 fruit, which will result from Mr. Knight's experiments and in- 

 quiries into this subject, will render these trees much more in- 

 teresting in such situations. Farm orchards are highly pro- 

 fitable for sending the fruit to market, as in Clydesdale ; and for 



* It is extraordinary, tbat practical men have not more particularly recom- 

 mended the cultivation of mulberry trees in this country, where they succeed so 

 well, and produce such excellent fruit. These trees are not only of great impor- 

 tance as furnishing food to the silk-worm, the breeding and rearing of which might 

 become a delightful and profitable source of amusement to ladies during their resi- 

 dence in the country ; but they are also capable of being made of national utility 

 by the wine that could be made from the juice of this fruit Whoever understands 

 a little of the theory, and somewhat of the practice of making wine from grapes, 

 could make a very pure delicious wine from mulberries ; and if it be remembered, 

 on the one hand, what enormous sums of money are annually given for wines to a 

 country that will probably long be our rival and enemy under every form of govern- 

 ment ; and on the other, the various foreign matters, dangerous to the health, that 

 are used in the manufacture of artificial wines ; it is surely no less desirable than 

 patriotic to endeavour to raise a very salutary and highly delicious substitute en- 

 tirely of English growth. It is not an exaggerated calculation to say, that in the 

 course of a very few years half the consumption of the united kingdom might be 

 supplied with mulberry wine ; and it has naturally most of those qualities particularly 

 relished by Englishmen. 



