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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
small by many professional men who have 
large incomes, but it is an important item 
with our clerical friend, and the garden 
contributes largely to the health and com¬ 
fort of his household. In the item of health 
alone, he considers that it pays, even if 
there were no pecuniary profit. He has 
enjoyed almost uninterrupted health during 
a ministry of twelve years, losing but two 
Sabbaths in all that time. His garden is his 
medicine chest and his Europe, infinitely 
better than blue pill and the discomforts of 
a sea voyage and the hospitalities of the 
hotel keepers of the Continent. He is well 
satisfied that gardening pays as well in the 
health "of the body and of the mind as it 
does in the purse. He takes the papers and 
reads them. 
HALF AN A CRE. 
In another column we have given the re¬ 
sults obtained in a clergyman’s garden, con¬ 
sisting of one and a half acres. Here we 
propose to show the plan and arrangement 
of a mechanic s half acre. The accompany¬ 
ing plan is an exact drawing of the village 
plot of Mr. H. Smith, of South Norwalk, 
Connecticut. As we have before referred 
to this matter, it will not be new to some of 
our readers, but it will be so to ten thousand 
others. Mr. Smith is a hard-working me¬ 
chanic, who labors ten hours a day in his 
shop, and our object in again introducing 
a plan of his garden, is to show to others 
similarly situated, that there is a great 
amount of real enjoyment, as well as profit, 
to be derived from the tillage of a limited 
area of ground. Mr. Smith attends to his 
garden almost wholly himself, out of busi¬ 
ness hours, and finds pleasure and recrea¬ 
tion in so doing. We present this plot, not 
so much to recommend this particular plan, 
or the varieties of fruits or plants marked 
down, as to show what can be done. No 
two cultivators would follow precisely the 
same method, nor is it desirable that they 
should. There is a wide field here for the 
cultivation and development of taste and 
skill. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAN. 
Our engraving represents a plot 96 by 205 feet, 
and is drawn to a scale of about 20 feet to the 
inch. To make the plan as plain as may be, the 
letters, figures, and lines are necessarily drawn 
too large for the best effect upon the eye. The 
lower part of the plot, which is the west end, 
fronts upon the road running north and south. 
Outside of the fence are four white-ash shade- 
trees not here indicated. 
The figures refer to shade and fruit trees of 
different kinds and varieties. 
A, the dwelling-house; B, B, B, grass-plots; 
C, C, C, borders for shrubbery and flowers; D, D, 
flag-stone walks ; E (on the right), border for cur¬ 
rants ; F, (on the left), border for dwarf pears and 
dahlias; G, G, G, strawberry beds; H, plot for 
blackberries and raspberries ; I, J, K, L, plots for 
vegetables, &c., described below ; M, a vine bor¬ 
der ; N, a cold grapery; O, raspberry border next 
the fence; P, P, foot-paths through grass-plots; 
Q, Q, garden-walks ; R, privy ; S, well. 
The three strawberry plots, G, G, G, contain 
eleven varieties, viz.: Hovey’s S. pine ; Boston 
pine; Burr’s new seedling; McAvoy’s Superior ; 
large early Scarlet; Jenny’s Seedling, Crimson 
Cone; Le Baron ; British Queen ; Princess Alice 
Maud ; and one variety, name unknown. 
The square plot, H, beside 13 dwarf pear trees 
and 5 white Smith gooseberry bushes, contains 
of raspberries 15 hills red Antwerps, 9 hills white 
Antwerps, and 9 hills Franconia. On the same 
