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PART V. CULINARY GARDENING. 311 



Culinary hot-houses may be placed against the south side 

 of the north wall as usual; or, if a convenient space can be 

 found, without the walls ; where the whole of the forcing- 

 houses, pits, and frames, may be placed together. When this 

 is not the case, the pits and hot-beds should be placed in a 

 sunk area in one of the quarters of the garden, and not far dis- 

 tant from the hot-houses. 



In a complete and magnificent residence, the kitchen gar- 

 den ought to be laid out at first, and managed ever afterwards, 

 with a view to the cultivation and production of culinary fruits 

 and vegetables only. No green-houses or plant stoves, flower- 

 borders, roses, or parterres, should be introduced ; but utility 

 should be predominant in every part. In many cases, even the 

 edgings of the walks should be made of strawberries *, parsley, 

 or other useful plants ; and in place of holly hedges, double 

 rows of espaliers or standard fruit-trees. In a complete resi- 

 lience, the flower-garden, green-house, and plant-stoves, should 

 be entirely by themselves. In a less magnificent residence, 

 however, they may be, or at least are commonly, intermingled ; 

 and when the flowers and shrubs introduced in the borders are 



* Strawberries always produce best in this situation, though in most cases box 

 is preferable ; for what is gained by the fruit of the strawberries, is lost by the 

 extra labour of preserving the earth of the border from mixing with the gravel of 

 the walk. 



