THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
October 24.] 
wo hope to effect is a more general diffusion of correct 
knowledge of new jilants, so as to impart not only a 
desire for their possession, hut the means of judging 
■ whether they are suitable to the reader’s requirements. 
Keeping this in view, we shall always endeavour to give 
a correct idea of the habit of the plant. 
Schiueder’s Spotted Air-plant {Aerides maculosum; 
var.,’ Schrosderi ).—This beautiful orchid is a native of the hills 
near Bombay, and was purchased at a sale of newly-imported 
plants, about six years since, by J. Id. Schrceder, Esq., of 
Stratford Green, Essex, so well-known as a spirited and suc¬ 
cessful orchid grower. This is the third year of its blooming ; 
and, like the longer known Aerides maculosum, it is of dwarf¬ 
ish habit, and its flowers are white, spotted with purplish-pink, 
but much paler than the original species. Naturally it appears 
to produce a spike of flowers from within the base of every 
leaf.— Gardener’s Mat/, of Botany, vol. ii. p. 121. 
THE ERUIT-GARDEN. 
j FORMATION OF FRUIT AND KITCHEN-GARDENS— Continued. 
Having at page 18 of the present volume delivered a 
few general ideas on the above subject, and conducted 
the reader to the kitchen-garden door, we now resume 
the subject at that point; and whilst at the entrance, 
| it may he well to consider the matter of convenience as 
! bearing on the situation of the entrance doors. 
The first thing that comes to mind, and a considera- 
| tion of some weight, is to economise labour in the 
article of manure—to have as little carting and wheeling 
as possible; for much of this, through inconvenient 
positions in the doors, forms a serious item in the year’s 
labour. Wherever the general depot of manures, rotten 
leaves, and other manurial matters may be, a door 
should, if possible, he placed on that side; and where 
much soil and manures are to bo introduced, and the 
j distance rather considerable, a pair of double doors, 
I with a corresponding width of pathway or road, will be 
found of great service in economising labour, inasmuch 
as bulky materials may be drawn by cartage to the very 
centre of the garden. This will be found a great saving 
of labour the year through; and when the pleasure- 
grounds, slips, &c., lie in that direction, such an arrange¬ 
ment will he found of vast service during extensive 
alterations, which not unfrequently involve a good deal 
of labour. 
Thus a good kitchen gardener would plan out his 
whole scheme of cropping in the early part of Novem¬ 
ber in each year; and at each leisure moment the 
manures necessary could be carted to a central spot 
especially provided, and would supply wheeling labour 
to the requisite parts during frosty weather, or as morn¬ 
ing work- It must be understood, however, that this 
suggestion is offered on behalf of a rigid economy; for 
it must be confessed, that a store of manurial matters 
suffered to lie for days in the centre of a well-kept 
kitchen-garden is by no means an ornamental affair; 
and, besides, a central depot necessarily leads to a slight 
' derangement of that simplicity of form and arrange¬ 
ment which should appear in all parts of a good 
kitchen-garden. We think it a duty, however, to point 
out both tire merits and demerits of given plans, in 
order that different classes of readers may he gratified. 
We need hardly observe, that a door should open at 
as near a point to the mansion as possible; and as the 
doors of a neat kitchen-garden are generally made 
exactly opposite to each other, through the intersection 
of two principal walks at right angles to each other, 
of course in studying the before-named conveniences 
some trifling compromises will have to be made as to 
distance. In all such cases, however, a little bending 
or twisting of the approach walk or walks will readily 
overcome this difficulty. 
We would in all cases have the entrance from the 
house as much concealed as possible by clever planting, 
for these episodical plots should not be spied into with 
too much ease—such detracts from the dignity and style 
of the place, and renders the digressive plot itself less 
interesting when entered. What said Pope— 
“ Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, 
Where half the skill is decently to hide.” 
Pope, we believe, it was who composed this couplet; 
if, however, our memory is treacherous we beg his 
memory’s pardon. 
A well covered trellis, or arcade, would make a capital 
terminus to the entrance walk from the house; and in 
order to give it a special character such might he 
covered at the top with standard pears trained over¬ 
head, whilst perpetual roses, Irish ivy, or other orna¬ 
mental matters of a permanent or somewhat evergreen 
character, might form the sides. Thus might a slight 
amount of curiosity ho excited, and thus a connecting 
link be formed between the dress grounds and the 
kitchen-garden; and we should see no harm in giving 
an arcade of this character a length of some ten or 
twenty paces; and if the junction with the house walk 
can be so managed, by all means let the arcade enter 
straight on the door. It requires a little management, 
however, in ground work to form a clever junction 
between a straight line and a curve. One of the best 
plans, we think, is to interpose an object at the point 
of junction—such as a seat, a sun-dial, a vase, a statue, 
a massive rustic basket, &e., &c. 
We must now begin to think of the fruit-trees, and j 
would not have meddled so much with the decorative 
appendages, hut that these departments are to a certain i 
extent interwoven with each other. 
Wall Borders.— Before proceeding to details, it will i 
be well to discuss for a moment the width of garden j 
w r all borders. By something nigh akin to fatuity, it I 
seems to obtain as a standard notion that all borders of i 
this kind must be some ten or twelve feet wide. Now, j 
