1 ft. 10 in. 4 ft. 8 in 
GO 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
Back of brick nogging; 11 feet long outside. 
[October 31. 
Door. 
Ground Plan .—The whole of the brickwork one foot ten inches high j 
piers and first row of brickwork, 9 inches wide; between piers, 
inches. 
East end ; glass at this end, S ft. 
2 in. long; door, 18 in. wide. 
COST. 
£ s. 
The back brick nogging, old stuff, and plastering 0 7 
300 good old bricks, @ 3s. Od. hundred, for) „ , n 
wall .J 0 10 
Lime, aand, &c. 0 0 
117 feet of deal, 3 in. by l^in.; or one and half] _ „ 
12 in. deal, sawed, @ os.j ' 
Thus: 28 ft. for plate laid Hat in mortar ; 
38 ft. for frame of roof on edge ; 
10 ft. to hold windows in roof on edge ; 
30 uprights, back, front, door, window ; 
10 ft. across roof, under glass—from 
- west to east, for strength. 
117 
2G1 feet of laths, rabbits included, 14 in. by J in., 
@ id. $■ ft..... ,... 0 10 
150 feet square glass, @ l§d. 1ft square foot .... 018 
Putty, @ Id. 1ft lb. ,..., . 0 2 
One deal, for door, 4 in. thick, for linings, &e. .. 0 0 
Paint. 0 12 
Nails. . 0 2 
Hinges . O 1 
Carriage.. 0 0 
Sill of door . 0 2 
£i 10 0 
THE EllUIT-GAEDEN. 
ORDER OF BUSINESS THROUGH THE WINTER. 
Front View. Window in centre, 2 ft. 8 in. wide. 
Roof. Sliding window in the middle, 2 ft. 8 in. wide. 
It tvill become our duty at this period to point out the 
best mode of economising time on this side Christmas : 
a period of the utmost importance to the fruit cultivator. 
! The days are now getting very short, and, therefore, what 
we lose in this way had better he made up, in some 
degree, by an increased activity and energy of mind. 
We need scarcely observe, that the present is a most ■ 
eligible season for planting; our maxim is, to plant 
fruits with the remains of the “ sere and yellow leaf” 
on; nay, even to plant before such decline actually takes 
place, providing always that the wood is well ripened. 
“Aye! ” somebody may say, “whose wood is well ripened 
in the north, of such tender trees as the peach, &c., &c. ?” 
Whatever may be the case with other folks, we can only 
say, that the wood of our trees—all on the shallow 
border and top-dressing system—is now as ripe as it 
well can be. Our friends in the south seem to wonder i 
at the stress we are ever laying on the evil effects of im¬ 
mature growths, and the vast importance of pursuing 
. closely every principle having a tendency to promote 
[ the thorough ripening of the wood. “ They that are 
[ whole need not a Physician ”—our southerns are so 
favoured by, in some cases, about three or four degrees 
of latitude, that it is plain to perceive they wonder what 
all this pucker is about. Perhaps a year or two’s revel¬ 
ling in horticultural matters at John o’Groat’s, where 
gooseberries manage to get half ripe somewhere about 
the end of August, would teach them a lesson they would 
not readily forget. Whilst we have the honour, there¬ 
fore, to wield a pen for the pages of The Cottage Gar¬ 
dener, we will never forget that this busy and cheap little 
“weekly" insinuates itself into many an “ingle neuk” 
in the north, where folks, indeed, require more advice 
than their southern neighbours,—at least, advice of the 
kind alluded to. 
Foremost, then, in the category of urgent affairs, let 
us name the preparation of ground for planting matters. 
It is not proper, in this skeleton view of affairs, to inflict 
i a full detail of the modes of carrying out such opera¬ 
tions ; such has been already chatted over in previous 
numbers, and will be recurred to again in due course for 
the benefit of fresh recruits. Let it suffice, therefore, to 
observe, that this thorough preparation consists of a 
proper examination of the staple of the soil about to he 
planted, to see whether it is too light or too adhesive; 
