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largest stones (if any) are picked off, cover the ground with a good coat 
of dung, and another composed of small chalk, marl, loam, or earth 
of any kind within reach. The thicker these materials are laid on and 
digged in, the richer the future service of the ground will be, either 
for the growth of culinary vegetables or fruit trees. If only a moderate 
quantity of loam or mild clay be procurable it should be chiefly 
bestowed on the borders intended for wall-fruit trees. It should be 
particularly kept in mind that, on such a deep subsoil of gravel, every 
exertion should be made to render the garden immediately pro¬ 
ductive, and this can only be done by making the gravelly surface, 
necessarily made by the operation of trenching, as rich as possible. 
Gradual amelioration will be made in the course of years ; but a 
substantial foundation should be laid at first. 
When the whole area is thus trenched, enriched, digged and levelled, 
•the next thing is laying out the walks and quarters. A walk four feet 
wide should encompass the whole at the distance of twelve feet from the 
wall; in order to correspond with the height of the wall; but which 
we must remark is two feet higher than it need have been for so small 
a garden. If desirable the garden may be divided into quarters 
by -walks of the same width crossing each other at right angles in the 
middle of the plot. 
The South and West aspects of the walls may be planted with 
peaches, nectarines, and vines. Of the two former, dwarfs may be 
planted at fifteen feet distances, with standards or riders between each 
couple, to occupy the upper part of the wall. The East and North 
aspects should be planted with pears, plums, and morella cherries. 
The first and last at eighteen feet distances, and the second at about 
twelve feet apart from each other. 
The best peaches for such a garden are the Early Admirable, Early 
Galland, French Mignon, Violet Hative, Noblesse, Royal George, and 
Late Admirable. The best Nectarines are the Elruge, Claremont, 
Roman, Newington, and Peterborough. The most useful pears are 
the Petit Muscat, Sucre Vert, Jargonelle, Bon Chretien d’Ete, 
Autumn Bergamot, Swan’s Egg, White Beurre, Brown Beurre, 
Gansel’s Bergamot, Marie Louise, St. Germain, Dnchesse d’Angouleme, 
Crassane, Colmar, Chaumontelle, and Beurre Diel. The best Plums 
are the Jaun Hative, Early Primordian, Morocco, Early Orleans, 
Fotheringam, Green Gage, Orleans, LaRoyale, Coe’s Golden Drop, and 
Magnum Bonum. If a choice of materials can be had for compounding 
fruit borders, see what has been advanced on this subject in our 
Number for October 1835. And as to the manner of planting and 
different modes of training fruit-trees round the margins of Kitchen- 
garden quarters, see the two last Numbers of the Register. 
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