A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION. 
53 
These walls are covered with apricot, peach, nectarine, plum, pear, 
cherry and fig-trees, and at intervals a few raspberry and currant 
bushes intermingle, with various flowering shrubs of Pyrus japonica, 
Coculus indicus, Bignomia Myrtle, Rose Honeysuckle and Passion 
flower. The pleasure garden, which is on the west side of the house, 
is grass bordered next to the walls, with a variety of dwarf shrubs 
chiefly Kalmia, Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Andromedas, Hydrangeas 
and Roses. The grass plot, on three sides, has a margin of shrubs 
and flowers in parterres of various forms, on the other side are stand¬ 
ard trees of Sycamore, Siberian Crab, Kentish Cherry and Quince, 
placed so as to afford shelter and shade to the house. The space al¬ 
lotted to the growth of fruits has, within it, standard apple, pear, 
plum, cherry, damson, and medlar trees, with gooseberry, currant, 
and raspberry bushes and strawberries underneath. The vegetable 
portion consists of sixteen beds, each seven yards long and four feet 
wide, one bed giant rhubarb, another sea-kale, four asparagus, and 
the remainder is used for the growing of the ordinary culinary vege¬ 
tables. A border exclusively for pot, medicinal, and other herbs 
extends from the kitchen door on two sides of the offices. Gravel 
walks of a vard and a half wide connect the several portions of gar¬ 
den with the house and offices. In the fruit garden is one two-light 
frame, and in the vegetable garden a three-light frame, used to pre¬ 
serve half hardy plants, and to produce early vegetables. 
We entered upon these premises just three years since ; the only- 
trees then upon it were one plum, one apple, and two cherry trees, 
the land was partly garden and partly field, much exhausted by ex¬ 
cessive cropping. The surface a shallow coat of vegetable mould, 
upon a deep subsoil of yellow loam, with a sileceous base, water 
standing generally at two yards beneath the surface, at fifteen yards 
from the house, a cess-pit, six yards deep, receives by means of a 
drain, the foul water of the back kitchen (there being no sewer near 
the cess-pit) and which had become an intolerable nuisance from the 
sides being saturated with soluble matter, the overflow of which 
ponded back upon the house. Every part of the garden is now in 
high condition, the wall and standard fruit-trees are of the best sorts, 
and in the most thriving state, and altogether a very productive 
piece of ground. Some of the practices which have been adopted 
towards producing so successful a result, aided by the very judicious 
management of my better half, who is a most enthusiastic gardener, 
and who follows up with zeal whatever improvements are suggested, 
1 will detail. In the winter after my entry, the whole of the ground, 
except the part designed to be grass, was trenched four spits, or two 
