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The wall d, with a north-east aspect, may be put to the 
same purposes, and planted like wall b. It should be re- 
served for autumnal pears. 
In the beds, which are also 5 ft. in width, the asterisks (*) 
represent fusiform standard pears, alternating, in the beds 
facing walls a and b , with red, white, and black currant 
bushes; and on the smaller beds opposite the walls c and 
d with gooseberry bushes with bowl-shaped heads and short 
stems. 
Around these beds on the sides next the paths are apples on 
APPLES TRAINED IN HORIZONTAL RODS. 
Paradise stocks, trained in single horizontal rods. The other 
portions of the beds are set with strawberry plants. _ 
The three transverse trellises running across the interior of 
the garden, and which do not exceed 7 ft. in height, may be 
planted thus : The middle one with pears, trained as five- 
branched palmette candelabras ; the other two with apples 
trained in fans, with six branches each in clayey soils, and 
four only in light ones. Lastly, by o are indicated apple 
trees, and by ©, six pyramidal pears. 
In place of these pyramids we may put apples in half or 
full sized standards. The beds e should be left for minor pur- 
poses — such as growing pot-herbs, flower-seeds, setting 
cuttings, and the like. 
The first business in planting a fruit garden is to consider 
the capabilities of the place. To produce good fruits requires 
a combination of favourable circumstances ; a deep strong soil, 
a kind climate, and some amount of shelter. The manner in 
-which particular places differ in their capabilities, engages our 
attention, wherever we go in the exploration of gardens. Thus, 
