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THE AMATEUR’S KITCHEN GARDEN. 
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The plan is drawn to a scale of twenty yards to one inch, 
and the garden therefore is 116 yards in length, and 80 yards 
in breadth, and is nearly two acres in extent. For all 
practical purposes it may be described as covering an area 
of two acres. . The garden is enclosed by a brick wall 10 feet 
in height, which is indicated by the black lines in the plan. 
Inside the wall is a border for fruit trees, which is nine feet in 
width, and extends all round the garden. Within the border 
is a three-feet gravel walk, and the central area is divided into 
two spacious quarters by a pathway nine feet wide, to allow a 
cart to pass through the garden. Outside the wall is a border 
all round of the same width as that inside, then a walk also of 
the same width, and a strip or border eighteen feet wide, and 
this is enclosed with a good quick-set hedge, w r hich is now’ 
nearly four feet, high and about thirty inches through, and 
a hedge of this kind is found quite sufficient to resist 
cattle. 
The two central quarters are, as shewm in the plan, devoted 
partljf. to fruit-trees and partly to vegetables, and the arrange- 
ment is in every way satisfactory. The trees, which are repre- 
sented by the dots alongside the walks, are planted nine feet 
apart, and four and a half feet from the edge of the walk. 
They are all trained in the form of pyramids, and are now 
from five to eight feet high, and from three to five feet in 
diameter at the base. The two quarters afford ample accom- 
modation for ninety-six trees, which are sufficient to produce 
large supplies of the several kinds of fruits. 
Fruit-trees are of course planted on both sides of the walls. 
The two south aspects afford room for thirty-six trees, planted 
fifteen feet apart; the two north aspects accommodate the 
same number, planted at the same distance ; the two west as- 
pects, twenty-tv 7 o trees ; and the two east aspects a similar 
number, in each case the trees being fifteen feet three inches 
apart. The number of trees against the walls is therefore 
one hundred and sixteen ; and of pyramids in the open quar- 
ters ninety-nine ; making in all a total of two hundred and 
fifteen trees ; and notwithstanding the comparatively large 
number, they do not materially interfere v r ith the crops of 
vegetables, the bush fruits, and the strawberries. A three- 
feet alley is left next the wall, to enable those who attend to 
the trees to pass along without treading upon the crops, and 
to avoid injuring the roots. The other part of the border is 
