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have scarcely awakened from their winter 

 sleep. What is more beautiful than a spray 

 of rose-flecked apple blossom arching the 

 path, or, later, the sun-kissed fruit showing 

 its ruddy spheres amidst the darkening foliage? 



And if the flower garden is to invade the 

 vegetable plot, w^hy not the converse? Fruit 

 trees upon the grass plot have just as much 

 value as the che tnut or laburnum, both for 

 flower and shade, and against a north wall 

 they will cover much uninteresting brick and 

 mortar, and yield their crop without detracting 

 from the usefulness of the border for flower- 

 growing. 



Even the boundary hedge between flower 

 and vegetable plot may be made of espaliers, 

 or such easily trained fruit bushes as logan- 

 berry, wine-berry, and blackberry. 



The gardener of resource will find no diffi- 

 culty in putting these hints into practice. 

 There is nothing new in them. The associa- 

 tion of flowers and vegetables in the kitchen 

 garden was common in the walled-in gardens 

 of a century ago; but the practice was not 

 introduced with quite the same objects as 

 those here detailed, because in those days the 



