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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



PAGK 



Operations of Horticultural Design and Taste . . .411 



875. Taking plans. 876. Carrying plans into execution. 877. Re- 

 ducing a surface to a level, or to a uniform slope. 



CHAPTER V. 



Operations of General Management . . . . . . 412 



879. General management of a garden. 880. On undertaking the 

 charge of a garden. 881. The books to be kept by a gardener. 882. 

 The ordering of seeds and plants. 883. The management of men and 

 the distribution of work. 884. The wages of a gardener. 



PART III. 



The Culture of the Kitchen, Fruit, and Forcing Garden . 416 



CHAPTER I. 



Laying out and Planting the Kitchen and Fruit Garden . 416 

 Sect. I. — Laying out the Kitchen Garden . . . . . 416 

 885. The situation and general management of the kitchen garden. 

 886. Trenching and levelling. 



Sect. II. — The Distribution of Fruit-trees in a Kitchen Garden . 420 

 SuBSECT. I. — Wall-fruit Trees ........ 422 



888. Select list of fruit-trees adapted for walls of different aspects. 890. 

 The distance. 891. For low walls. 892, Training. 893. Planting. 

 SuBSECT. II. — Fruit-trees for Espaliers and Dwarfs .... 424 



894. Espaliers. 895. Dwarfs or standards trained in the conical 

 manner. 896. Espalier-rails. 897. A wooden espalier rail. 898. Es- 

 palier rails of cast iron. 899. Espalier rails of wrought iron. 900. 

 Dwarfs. 901. Select list. 902. The plants. 903. Standard fruit-trees. 



SuBSECT. III. — Fruit Shrubs 429 



904. Gooseberries and currants. 905. Select list. 906. Plants. 

 SuBSECT. IV. — Selection of Fruit-trees adapted for an Orchard . . 430 

 907. A plantation or orchard. 908. The plants. 909. Select list. 

 910. Training. 911. Culture of the soil. 



CHAPTER II. 



Cropping and General Management of a Kitchen Garden . 434 

 Sect. I. — Cropping ......... 434 



913. The herbaceous vegetables grown in kitchen gardens. 914. Gene- 

 ral proportions of crops. 916. The quantity of seed. 



Sect. II. — Rotation of Crops ....... 435 



918. Successional cropping. 919. The object to be obtained by a 

 system of cropping. 920. Successional cropping. 921. The simulta- 

 neous mode of cropping. 922. Modes of cropping. 923. Successional 

 and simultaneous cropping combined. 924. Order of rotation. 925. 

 Secondary crops. 926. Times of sowing and planting. 



Sect. III. — Planting^ Soicing^ Cultivating^ and Managing . . 439 



928. Management of the fruit-tree borders. 929. Management of 

 the culinary crops. 930. Gathering, storing, and keeping of fruit. 

 931. Management of the fruit-room. 



