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inclined to abridge the extent of ground sometimes 

 allotted to culinary vegetables : a few plots would be 

 sufficient to cultivate and exliibit the newer sorts. The 

 orchard ground must always be spacious^ but perhaps 

 it might be in part reduced by grafting two or three 

 sorts on one stocky and by the eradication of those 

 which have been proved to be wortliless. Ample room 

 should always be secured for a collection of trees and 

 shrubs, particularly the latter, of which there are many 

 fine species not generally known in private gardens. In 

 this department the horticultural societies have already 

 done good service. The Arboretum in the garden of 

 the London Society was long the best in Britam, though 

 it must now yield the pahn to that in the Royal Gar- 

 dens at Kew. Such collections should be made, if pos- 

 sible, to take the place of those tawdry, insipid, promis- 

 cuous shrubberies which are too common everywhere. 



We should further be disposed to recommend the 

 special adaptation of a garden of this class to the pecu- 

 liar wants of the locality at which it is placed. It is 

 evident that such a garden at Edinburgh may be made a 

 shade or two different from one at Exeter or Cork. In 

 Scotland it is vain to plant a Chaumontel pear as a stan- 

 dard, or a black Hambm'g vine on an open wall ; expe- 

 rience has pronounced sufficiently on these points 

 already ; but it would be a very proper thing to form a 

 complete collection of the fruit-trees which are found 

 to be suitable for the chmate ; and it would be equally 

 proper to acquire supplies of those new varieties which 

 might be expected to succeed in that country. So in the 

 cider districts of England, an experimental garden might 

 well be devoted to the determination of the relative 

 qualities of the cider fruits, and to the promotion of 



