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have a little strip of garden against a wall, 
they could, of course, have a fruit tree trained 
against it, instead of any of the climbers I have 
described, but it requires much care and pruning 
to get it to bear fruit well, and probably 
children would have too much difficulty in 
growing good peaches, plums, or apricots; 
cherries or red currants, however, might be 
managed on a north wall. In a wild garden 
the new American kinds of bramble are easy to 
grow. They make pretty climbers, and have 
much larger fruit than the wild English 
bramble, and another easy fruit to manage is 
the Japanese wineberry. The plant is some¬ 
thing like a bramble, with fruit more like a 
raspberry, although not quite such a good 
flavour, but of a lovely clear red colour when 
ripe. It could be made to trail over a bush, 
or else should have a few sticks to support it. 
Fruit-growing in a small garden has its 
disadvantages, and not the least of them is that 
it often spoils the friendly relations between the 
owner of the garden and the bird visitors. 
They are indeed mischievous where fruit is 
concerned, and not only will they peck off the 
ripe fruit in autumn, but they will often destroy 
the buds in spring, so that there never is any 
fruit at all. Bullfinches are really naughty, and 
if left undisturbed to play about the garden, 
